The manager stared at the empty doorway for a space, shrugged, and returned to his ledgers. "To paint your portrait," answered the jailer. ‘Pen and paper, do you have them?’ ‘Danged if I have,’ came the truculent response. Then they dressed her in a dirty dress of coarse serge and a cap, and took away her own clothes. 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. Perhaps he had lost his loved ones and was wandering over the world seeking forgetfulness. He must have married when he was quite a young man. I did not have to dig deep in my imagination to create the status-obsessed suburban environment of Lucy’s modern milieu. “There,” he said, “you don’t treat me fairly, Miss Stanley. “If one half of the stories about Meysey Hill are true,” he answered, “I would not stretch out my little finger to save his life. With me behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. Kneebone's house, the young man hastened to a hotel in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden, where, having procured a horse, he shaped his course towards the west end of the town. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. In a little while—to-morrow—all these tender, beautiful emotions will pass away, and I'll become what I was yesterday, a cynical, miserly old spinster.
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