He felt
himself collapse heavily onto her naked body, still inside
her. CHAPTER XXVIII. “I mean to go to that dance! I meant to
reason with you, but you won’t reason. Well, if she survives the accident—as the blood, who styles himself Sir
Cecil, fancies she may do—this ring will make my fortune by leading to the
discovery of the chief parties concerned in this strange affair. “By Jove!” she said, standing up at last, “that about finishes it, Ann
Veronica!”
CHAPTER THE TENTH
THE SUFFRAGETTES
Part 1
“There is only one way out of all this,” said Ann Veronica, sitting up in her
little bed in the darkness and biting at her nails. "Where is he, then?" demanded the other, hastily. “I have spoken too many truths to-night. ” Ann Veronica sat at the foot of
the sufferer’s bed, while Teddy Widgett, being something of an athlete, occupied
the only bed-room chair—a decadent piece, essentially a tripod and largely a
formality—and smoked cigarettes, and tried to conceal the fact that he was
looking all the time at Ann Veronica’s eyebrows. ” She replied. “I don’t have time for this. But he seized the
chance to entrap her fingers, fan and all, and look deeply into her eyes. So they fenced
with smiles. “I am off to-night,” he said. 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. And nearly all these things were fearfully ill-paid.
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