I did all for the best, I'm sure. ‘Idiot!’ ‘Enough, now! Softly, you little termagant,’ he ordered, seizing her wrists to hold her off. The screams of the unfortunate woman had aroused Thames from his slumbers. He was disquieted. She just sat and told me that was her arrangement. Startled by the cry, as may be supposed, the attention of the whole congregation was drawn towards the quarter whence it proceeded. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. What ho! lights! lights!" And, shouting as he went, he flung himself down stairs. "But it won't do. "And now," he continued, sternly, "was it your master who has just ridden by?" "No," answered Quilt, sullenly. “I don’t see what he has to do with my coming to London?” “He—he worships the ground you tread on. “I ought never have gone to the Zoo, I suppose. " "Please!" She dropped the curtains and the manuscripts, knelt and held out her arms. 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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