Unable to withstand this appeal, Thames gave the required promise, adding,
—"Oh! Winny, I wish Mr. Her aunt, a faded, anæmic-looking lady of
somewhat too obtrusive gentility, was still sitting with her hand pressed to her
heart. While the strife
raged between the principals, the watermen in the larger wherry were occupied
in stemming the force of the torrent, and endeavouring to keep the boats, they
had lashed together, stationary. And thus it was that she
came upon a book of Stevenson's verse—her first adventure into poetry. 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. The night was now profoundly dark. . A jar of pink roses upon a tiny table seemed
to gain an extra delicacy of colour from the sombre curtains behind. ’
The eyes flashed momentarily. 'Sdeath! what can I have done with it? Oh! here it is,"
cried Hogarth, picking it from the ground. Certainly not a gentlewoman. “My dear
sweet Lucia. At length, she suddenly started to her feet; and before Winifred could prevent
her, staggered up to Thames.
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