” “I thought I was old enough,” she gasped, between laughter and crying. Ramage’s bitterness passed as abruptly as his aggression. Melusine dashed them away, but they kept on coming. I seed he was one,—and a sharp un, too,—at a glance. ‘He was very kind to me. I've opened the case of books. " "So have we all. Her mouth at half-cock, Melusine stood there staring at him. “So you’d best open your coffers. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy, and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities. He displayed a quite unprofessional vein of mysticism in the matter. She was writhing to get her hands loose and found herself gasping with passionate violence, “It’s damnable!—damnable!” to the manifest disgust of the fatherly policeman on her right. Forthwith he presented his card. O'Higgins returned to town and made a night of it, nothing very wild, nothing very desperate. 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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