He personated over there a millionaire named Meysey Hill, and it seems that he induced Annabel to go through some sort of marriage with him at the Embassy. Never again would he repeat that kiss; but at night when they separated, he would touch her forehead with his lips, and sometimes he would hold her hand in his and pat it. She ought to be softened and tender and confidential at this phase of her life. “A nice time of anxiety you’ve given me, young lady,” he said, as he entered the room. ‘Who have lately joined us,’ she said, adding sotto voce, ‘A very great tragedy. 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. ’ ‘What husband?’ ‘Precisely. ‘He lacked moral fibre, did Nicholas. ’ Melusine gave it up. But in the appendix of the dictionary she had discovered magic names—Hugo, Dumas, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Lytton. Eight per cent. As Mrs. Then she realized that it was her business to let Manning talk and impose his own interpretations upon the situation so far as he was concerned. Perhaps," she added, in a whisper, as she appropriated the beforenamed article, "he has a pocket-book.
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