" "I am not unprotected," rejoined the poor woman; "there's some one at the window. ‘I didn’t mean to hurt you so badly,’ he said, still meeting her eyes, unaware that his hold about her hand had tightened a little. I think that a boarding-house is the very best place for a woman who wants to develop her sense of humour. No mercenary consideration influences me. “It makes me feel,” he said, “that nothing is impossible—to have you here beside me. “I was surprised, I admit,” he said. Still he had a decent look, and decidedly the air of one well-to-do in the world. This woman knows me—’ throwing the remark at Lucilla ‘—and that I am the daughter of Mary Remenham. Well aware that the doors in this passage were much stronger than those in the entry he had just quitted he was neither surprised nor dismayed to find it fastened by a lock of unusual size. 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. I had dreamt of the olive grove beyond the courtyard I had once been fascinated 198 with as a boy. "Ali Baba, in a blue-serge coat!… God-forsaken fool!" CHAPTER XIII One day Ruth caught the patient's eyes following her about; but there was no question in the gaze, no interest; so she pretended not to notice. The baby was placed in her 19 lap.
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