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CHAPTER THE EIGHTH Sir Isaac as Petruchio 3 4
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It has been said, I think, by Limburger, in his already cited work, that nothing so excites and prevails with woman as rapid and extensive violence, sparing and yet centring upon herself, and certainly it has to be recorded that, so far from being merely indignant, and otherwise a helplessly pathetic spectacle, Lady Harman found, though perhaps she did not go quite so far as to admit to herself that she found, this vehement2 flight from the social, moral, and intellectual contaminations of London an experience not merely stimulating3 but entertaining. It lifted her delicate eyebrows4. Something, it may have been a sense of her own comparative immobility amid this sudden extraordinary bustle5 of her home, put it into her head that so it was long ago that Lot must have bundled together his removable domesticities.
She made one attempt at protest. "Isaac," she said, "isn't all this rather ridiculous——"
"Don't speak to me!" he answered, waving her off. "Don't speak to me! You should have spoken before, Elly. Now,—things are happening."
The image of Black Strand7 as, after all, a very pleasant place indeed returned to her. She adjudicated upon the nursery difficulties, and then went in a dreamlike state of mind to preside over her own more personal packing. She found Peters exercising all that indecisive helplessness which is characteristic of ladies' maids the whole world over.
It was from Peters she learnt that the entire household, men and maids together, was to be hurled8 into Surrey. "Aren't they all rather surprised?" asked Lady Harman.
"Yes, m'm," said Peters on her knees, "but of course if the drains is wrong the sooner we all go the better."
(So that was what he had told them.)
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