“Annabel! Why, what on earth have you been doing to yourself, child?” she exclaimed. . However, I'll make a last effort to save the poor little creature, if it costs me my life. " "It wouldn't surprise me if he did," remarked Griffin. He asked her whether she understood what she was saying, and went on to say still more precisely that she should never touch a penny of his money until she came home again—not one penny. "Do you think I'm afeard of a beggarly thief-taker and his myrmidons? Not I. He embraced her small body in his arms, kissing her forehead over and over. “We settled long ago—we’re hard stuff. 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. The operation was effected with so much rapidity and so little noise, that even if any one had been on the alert, he could scarcely have detected it. "The Chevalier shall hear of this," whispered the woollen-draper. "You hear," pursued Jonathan; "my friend desires to know if you are willing to pay your footing as a member of the ancient and respectable fraternity of debtors?" "I owe no man a farthing, and my name shall never appear in any such rascally list," replied Wood angrily.
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