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We men are cold and common-sensed enough for all; we would not have women the same. No, no, ladies dear, be always sentimental and soft-hearted, as you are be the soothing butter to our coarse dry bread. Besides, sentiment is to women what fun is to us. They do not care for our humor, surely it would be unfair to deny them their grief.

"First catch your common-sensed girl," muttered Jephson, a little grumpily, as it seemed to me. "Where do you propose finding her?" "Well," returned MacShaugnassy, "I looked to find her in Miss Medbury." As a rule, the mention of Miss Medbury's name brings a flush of joy to Jephson's face; but now his features wore an expression distinctly approaching a scowl. "Oh!" he replied, "did you?

Let Brown write to his sister at Newnham, and find out whom the intellectual maiden favours, while Jephson can learn from Miss Medbury what is most attractive to the common-sensed girl." This plan we had adopted, and the result was now under consideration. MacShaughnassy opened the proceedings by reading his aunt's letter.

You," he said, turning to me, "can put the case to your wife, and get the young lady's ideal. Let Brown write to his sister at Newnham, and find out whom the intellectual maiden favours, while Jephson can learn from Miss Medbury what is most attractive to the common-sensed girl." This plan we had adopted, and the result was now under consideration.

Better be common-sensed and practical, taking things as they are. In the case suggested, and confronted with such criticism, the medical adviser simply shrugs his shoulders, and is silent; the alternative he knows is inescapable. After a sufficiency of sound scourgings the objecting community will probably know better, and may listen to reason; in a way, conforming thereto.

It seemed as if Barnet expected a half-guilty look upon Lucy's face; but no, save the natural flush and flurry engendered by the service just performed, there was nothing whatever in her bearing which showed a disturbed mind: her gray-brown eyes carried in them now as at other times the well-known expression of common-sensed rectitude which never went so far as to touch on hardness.

She thought they struck bottom on some eternal truth, a humanity broader than patriotism. Pah! he sickened at such whining cant! The little Captain was common-sensed to the backbone, intolerant.

Well, then, the common-sensed girl loves the military also." "By Jove!" exclaimed MacShaughnassy, "what an extraordinary thing. What reason does she give?" "That there's a something about them, and that they dance so divinely," answered Jephson, shortly. "Well, you do surprise me," murmured MacShaughnassy, "I am astonished." Then to me he said: "And what does the young married woman say?

Well, then, the common-sensed girl loves the military, also." "By Jove!" exclaimed MacShaugnassy, "what an extraordinary thing. What reason does she give?" "That they look so nice when they're dressed, and that they dance so divinely," answered Jephson, shortly. "Well, you do surprise me," murmured MacShaugnassy, "I am astonished." Then to me he said: "And what does the young married woman say?

To an empty-headed woman I can imagine the soldier type proving vapid and uninteresting; to the woman of mind he represents her ideal of man a creature strong, handsome, well-dressed, and not too clever." "That gives us two votes for the army," remarked MacShaughnassy, as Brown tore his sister's letter in two, and threw the pieces into the waste-paper basket. "What says the common-sensed girl?"