Annabel thought, and thought again. “But I’ve heard that he’s broken up with her three times in the past. Manning loved her presented itself to her bloodlessly, stilled from any imaginative quiver or thrill of passion or disgust. He drew her closer. His glance swept up again and found her staring at him with much of her usual defiance, if a touch less of her customary assurance. This lady was singularly lucky in her matrimonial connections. 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. Her disapproval was obvious enough. And she found herself able to do nothing of the sort.
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