The husband is slave and she despot, or he the despot and she the slave, as best matches with her strength or weakness.

Some women desire slavery; they would be unhappy without a tyrant to obey." "And you--are you of those ?" asked Richard, half mocking Bess.
"No; I prefer the role of despot.

It is the reason why I shall marry Mr.
Fopling." "And yet Mr.Fopling might turn out a perfect Caligula," said Richard, with a vast pretense of warning.

Mr.Fopling was not there to hear himself ill-used.
"Mr.Fopling," observed Bess, in tones of lofty conviction, "has no ambitions, no energies, no thoughts; and he has money.

In brief, he is beset by none of those causes that excite and drive men into politics or literature or trade.