9. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. “Hello, Gwen!” said Ann Veronica, trying to put every one at their ease. She was a large, resilient girl, with a foolish smile, a still more foolish expression of earnestness, and a throaty contralto voice. “My hand! This isn’t the place. It is no more a murder, but a duel, you understand. I expect company. Mr Jarvis’s sister, that was. The estates must, ere long, revert to Sir Rowland. With a finger crooked in his side-pocket, she measured her step with his, her senses still dizzy from the echo of the magic sounds. “To the best of my belief, I have not a single English acquaintance in the city. ‘I borrow the expression from Melusine.
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