As he hesitated, unable to make up his mind what to do for the best, a heavy rumbling on the cobbles penetrated his absorption. “Annabel, I begin to see why you are here. 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 I know a little place where we’ll get a little quiet talk. I am come to serve you. Throwing the blanket over his left arm and shouldering the iron bar, he again clambered up the chimney; regained the Red Room; hurried along the first passage; crossed the Chapel; threaded the entry to the Lower Leads; and, in less than ten minutes after quitting the Castle, had reached the northern extremity of the prison. And even if that,’ she added bitterly, ‘he must be also a person of a disposition extremely mad, that he can go against the family. Already the warm sun was drawing from the pines their delicious odour. Annabel watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. In a sense I don’t care. ‘Well?’ he uttered between heavy breaths. She had but to choose. ‘It was your son who left the place empty then?’ he asked.
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