” A momentary bitterness crept into Anna’s tone. Loneliness—something that was almost physical: as if the vitality had been taken out of the air she breathed. They had both been unsuccessful. Our land brings us in nothing. Yes; she had heard the music the night before. The impassivity of her features changed at last. ‘You give me an excellent excuse to have in the Madeira,’ said his hostess, reaching for a silver hand bell and setting it pealing. Wu may have news for us. 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.
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