Excerpt: ...Not being fashionable myself, it doesn't interest me." "Yes, it's about a fortnight since we came back to this hateful place," returned Hartledon, his light tone subsiding into seriousness. "I am out of conceit with England just now; and would far rather have gone to the Antipodes." "Then why did you come back to it?" inquired the barrister, in surprise. "My wife gave me no choice. She possesses a will of her own. It is the ordinary thing, perhaps, for wives to do so." "Some do, and some don't," observed Thomas ...
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Excerpt: ...Not being fashionable myself, it doesn't interest me." "Yes, it's about a fortnight since we came back to this hateful place," returned Hartledon, his light tone subsiding into seriousness. "I am out of conceit with England just now; and would far rather have gone to the Antipodes." "Then why did you come back to it?" inquired the barrister, in surprise. "My wife gave me no choice. She possesses a will of her own. It is the ordinary thing, perhaps, for wives to do so." "Some do, and some don't," observed Thomas Carr, who never flattered at the expense of truth. "Are you going down to Hartledon?" "Hartledon!" with a perceptible shiver. "In the mind I am in, I shall never visit Hartledon again; there are some in its vicinity I would rather not insult by my presence. Why do you bring up disagreeable subjects?" "You will have to get over that feeling," observed Mr. Carr, disregarding the hint, and taking out his probing-knife. "And the sooner it is got over the better for all parties. You cannot become an exile from your own place. Are they at Calne now?" "Yes. They were in Paris just before we left it, and there was an encounter at Versailles. I wished myself dead; I declare I did. A day or two after we came to England they crossed over, and went straight down to Calne. There
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