The things we do!

" We were talking over the affair rather
late in the evening, the ladies having retreated to their sleeping
apartments, and some guests having taken leave, whom our hospitable host
and hostess had entertained that night, and before whom I naturally did
not care to speak upon a subject so dangerous.
"Parbleu, what virtue, my friend! what a Joseph!" cries Florac, puffing
his cigar. "One sees well that your wife had made you the sermon. My poor
Pendennis! You are henpecked, my pauvre bon! You become the husband
model. It is true my mother writes that thy wife is an angel!"
"I do not object to obey such a woman when she bids me do right," I said;
and would indeed at that woman's request have gone out upon the errand,
but that we here found another messenger. On days when dinner-parties
were held at Rosebury, certain auxiliary waiters used to attend from
Newcome whom the landlord of the King's Arms was accustomed to supply;
indeed, it was to secure these, and make other necessary arrangements
respecting fish, game, etc.


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