" The foregoing conversation, having been conducted throughout in a low tone, and apart, had not reached the ears of Mr. " "Oh! let me die," groaned the widow. At length, he fell down on the road, fully expecting each moment would prove his last. ‘It is in truth you?’ ‘Of course it is I. 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. “My dear Miss Pellissier,” he said impressively, “this is an unexpected pleasure. “My dear man,” she exclaimed, “wasn’t that a foregone conclusion?” “You treat the matter lightly,” he continued. Her new husband was pleased to watch the astonished look on her face as tray after tray appeared on the grand table, each better than the next. . The floor was thickly strewn with sawdust and shavings; and across the room ran a long and wide bench, furnished at one end with a powerful vice; next to which three nails driven into the boards served, it would appear from the lump of unconsumed tallow left in their custody, as a substitute for a candlestick. There was a mad musician, seemingly rapt in admiration of the notes he was extracting from a child's violin.
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