‘But you know everything now,’ protested Hilary, keeping pace as Gerald took the stairs two at a time. ’ She spoke with difficulty, holding down the rising emotion that threatened to overwhelm her. 175 “Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. He's a nice boy, a good student. Sheppard, struggling to escape, and holding the infant at arm's length; "have mercy on this helpless innocent!" And the child, alarmed by the strife, added its feeble cries to its mother's shrieks. ‘Here we go again. I’m ashamed to confess it, but I didn’t want the charge of you—a too close reminder of my own lost babe. 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. In the matter of his conscience he was primitive; and for an educated man to become primitive is to become something of a child. Enschede, to have starved his heart as well as Ruth's because, having laid a curse, he knew not how to turn aside from it! How easily he might have forgotten the unworthy mother in the love of the child! And this day to hear her voice lifted in a quality of anathema. "Are you a poltroon, after all?" "That's it! I ought to have died that night!" "Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude.
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