The Protestant Flagellant, who whipped his soul rather than his body, who made self-denial the rack and the boot, who believed that on Sunday it was sacrilegious to smile, blasphemous to laugh! Spurlock had gone back spiritually three hundred years. Wood by increased corpulence and decreased powers of vision,—by deeper wrinkles and higher shoulders, by scantier breath and a fuller habit. 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. A delicate flush of colour streamed into her cheeks. It came to Ann Veronica that life was wonderful beyond measure. She felt the bedsprings coil as he moved from his seated position, entranced. "My schemes have succeeded tolerably well hitherto. Play foul, and win. Hitherto, no visiters had been permitted to see him. " "I am," replied Jack, without hesitation; for he felt assured from the man's manner that he might confide in him. ’ Gosse smiled and Melusine read triumph there. It seemed to her that her father was in some inexplicable way meaner-looking than she had supposed, and yet also, as unaccountably, appealing. "The opinions, entertained by the old knight, naturally induced him to view with displeasure the conduct of his son, who warmly espoused the cause he had deserted. "Well, gentlemen," rejoined Wood, mildly; "since Mr.
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