" "What do you mean, Sir?" asked Trenchard. I will not be sent away. ’ ‘Yes, but what is it, Jacques?’ demanded the lady. ‘He’d have been that happy if he’d known how you’re the spit of her, miss. He was looking pale and ill. She knew Martha would not ask anything that she did not wish to know. You'd be coming up to Hong-Kong, but you'd be cutting out Canton. 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. “Holcroft,” he remarked, “in bald language, and with the usual limitations of his clouded intellect, has still given some slight expression to the consternation which I believe I may say is general amongst us.
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