Charley Pevenill was our host. "Yes; he'll suspect nothing. The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept out, one could not tell what colors these gray swathings hid. The two aunts of these young ladies lived for many years in the dower house upon my estate in Hampshire. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. The chamber, into which he stole, like all carpenters' workshops, was crowded with the implements and materials of that ancient and honourable art. “Oh, you can act!” she cried. Yet she took with her an uneasy consciousness that in this affair might lie the germs of future trouble. Not conceiving that his sister—feeble as she was, and yielding as she had ever shown herself to his wishes, whether expressed or implied—would depart without consulting him, he was equally surprised and enraged to hear the servants busied in transporting her to the carriage. I've come to take you back home. "Come with me, my love, come—come," cried his mother, seizing his hand, and endeavouring to force him away. Hurry. ‘Ah. 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. Too much blood has been shed already.
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