- Whereupon the baroness uttered a great cry, and swooned away at the baron's feet.
- What could the baron do? He called for the lady's maid, and roared for the doctor; and then, rushing into the yard,
- kicked the two Lincoln greens who were the most used to it, and cursing the others all round, bade them go - but never mind where,
- I don't know the German for it, or I would put it delicately that way.
- It is not for me to say by what means or by what degrees, some wives manage to keep down some husbands as they do,
- although I may have my private opinion on the subject, and may think that no Member of Parliament ought to be married,
- inasmuch as three married members out of every four, must vote according to their wives' consciences (if there be such things),
- and not according to their own.
