‘You are wise, Marthe. She snatched about in her mind. “Why shouldn’t one face the facts of one’s self?” She stood up. 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. Ann Veronica loved beautiful things, and the beauty of undraped loveliness not least among them; but these were pictures that did but insist coarsely upon the roundness of women’s bodies. She was on the rim of civilization, entering, as Spurlock was on the rim, preparing to make his exit. ‘Sit down, won’t you?’ He crossed back to Roding and said low-voiced. “Only you are the woman I love, and you are in trouble.
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