” He took up his hat. "The men. Impressed with this idea, he paused for a moment to listen. "I never told anybody," she went on. " "Well, suddenly I knew that I must see the inside of that box, which had a padlock. What was the name on those marriage lines you showed me?’ ‘M—Melusine,’ stammered the woman, her countenance yet registering shock. Lucy stood relieved that she had not messed up the solo. “I must take them,” she said, to help herself over her own incredulity. They even threatened to cut the traces and take off the wheels from the carriage. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be acquainted. ‘But for how long?’ Lady Bicknacre asked apprehensively. Wary they might be. Ah Cum turned to his own affairs, blissfully ignorant that this tub was, within forty-eight hours, to cost him fifty gold. This adventure of yours has gone on altogether too long; it has become a serious distress to both your aunt and myself.
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