Chapter Two ‘Our French friends are beginning to form quite a little coterie,’ remarked Gerald, covertly studying the group gathered in an alcove at the other side of Lady Bicknacre’s ballroom. The door was opened for her by a weary-looking youth in a striped jacket several sizes too large for him. They either ran to see or ran for shelter. One cannot successfully argue with a drunken man. "But, take my advice, and keep out of Sir Rowland's way, or you'll get the poor lady into trouble as well as me. I don’t defend it. The only persons in the Lodge were Mrs. "There it is!" cried Sir James, eagerly. He was her only brother, and she his favourite sister. 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. Yet either the rest or the wine seemed already to have done him good.
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