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. She listened with dumb fear in her eyes. By-the-bye, have you seen this new woman at the ‘Empire’? What is it they call her—‘Alcide?’” “Yes, I have seen her,” Ennison answered. ‘Still, the comtesse has them well in hand. “In a sort of beautiful garden-close—wearing lovely dresses and picking beautiful flowers?” “Ah! If one could!” “While those other girls trudge to business and those other women let lodgings. She was not afraid exactly, but there was that about her loneliness to-night she distrusted.
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