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"It is life. Sheppard did not dare to
return any answer; but, disengaging herself from his embrace, endeavoured
meekly to comply with his request. ’
With difficulty, Gerald bit back a laugh. ”
Chapter XXV
THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH
The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room
with a deferential little gesture. ’
‘You know, Gerald,’ Lucilla put in thoughtfully, forestalling a withering
rejoinder from the captain, ‘there may be something in that. Place a pistol at my
ear, and shoot me, if I've told you false. "These are my terms, Sir Rowland," he added, taking a sheet of paper from his
pocket, and pushing it towards the knight. The note-passer lagged behind with her. 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. ’
‘That’s fortunate,’ murmured Lucilla. An unwelcome idea came
to him. “Can you spare me forty pounds?” she said. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
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