”
She glanced shyly at the mirror above her dressing-table, and then about her at
the furniture, as though it might penetrate to the thoughts that peeped in her
mind. “It is you alone, Nigel, who have saved me
from being an old maid. The room seemed a vacuum. Ann Veronica found herself walking back down the Avenue that had just been
the scene of her first proposal beside her aunt, and speculating for the first time
in her life about that lady’s mental attitudes. Not for
me. 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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