How can he help you?” She threw such a look upon him that even he, Sir John Ferringhall, carpetmerchant, hide-bound Englishman, slow-witted, pompous, deliberate, felt his heart beat to music. When they reached her rooms she stepped lightly out upon the pavement. It was a gray day in the spring of 1910. Only the night before, in the dining room of the Hong-Kong Hotel, she had watched him empty glass after glass of whisky, and shudder and shudder. But d—n him! let's talk o' something more agreeable. The tears flowed faster. She tried not to pant, not to reveal herself, and she began to shake. As a net result she had come to think of all married people much as one thinks of insects that have lost their wings, and of her sisters as new hatched creatures who had scarcely for a moment had wings. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. 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.
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