A medley of motives warred in her, and it was certainly not one of the least of these that she knew herself to be passionately in love with Capes; at moments she had a giddy intimation that he was beginning to feel keenly interested in her. The youth of them! And what was he going to do when they left his island? What would Donald McClintock be doing with himself, when youth left the island, never more to return? Ruth was thrilling with joy. “Eight pounds,” she plunged, and added foolishly, “fifteen pounds will see me clear of everything. “All your dreadful scientific things?” he said, with a smile that Miss Klegg thought extraordinarily kindly. But, if I were in your place, I know what I'd do—" "What—what would you do?" asked Hogarth, eagerly. You say that this gentleman was with you?” “I was,” Brendon answered, “most providentially. 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.
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