by letter, to all who knew him, and protested that his furious wrath at not having profited more largely by the will put her in fear of her life. This last remarkable Marco Verratti Drakt statement was made in a long and violent epistle to Miss Barfoot, which the recipient showed to her cousin on the first opportunity. Everard had called one Sunday morning — it was the end of March — to say good-bye on his departure for a few weeks’ travel. Having read the letter, he laughed with a peculiar fierceness.
‘This kind of thing,’ said Miss Barfoot, ‘may necessitate your prosecuting her. There is a limit, you know, even to a woman’s licence.’
‘I am far more likely,’ he replied, ‘to purchase a very nice little cane, and give her an exemplary thrashing.’
‘Oh! Oh!’
‘Upon my word, I see no reason against it! That’s how I should deal with Thomas Muller Tröja a man who Maillot Tottenham Hotspur Pas CHer talked about me in this way, and none the less if he were a puny creature quite unable to protect himself. In that furious scene SSC Napoli Barn before we got Tom away I felt most terribly tempted to beat her. There’s a great deal to be said for woman-beating. I am quite sure that many a labouring man who pommels his wife is doing exactly the right thing; no other measure would Maillot BV 09 Borussia Dortmund Pas CHer have the least result. You see what comes of impunity. If this woman saw the possibility that I should give her a public caning she would be far more careful how she behaved herself. Let us ask Miss Halpa Miehet Cg Foxe Bomber Nunn’s opinion.’
Rhoda had that moment entered the room. She offered her hand frankly, and asked what the subject was.
‘Glance over this letter,’ said Barfoot. ‘Oh, you have seen it. I propose to get a light, supple, dandyish cane, and to give Mrs. Thomas Barfoot half a dozen smart cuts across the back in her Vestes Imperméable Pas CHer own drawing-room, some afternoon when people were present. What have you to say to it?’
He spoke with such show of angry seriousness that Rhoda paused before replying.
‘I sympathized with you,’ she said at length, ‘but I don’t think I would go to that extremity.’ |
