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"It's a pity she's an ass," suggested Mr Pitskiver. "I can't help thinking that that's a drawback." "What? what is a drawback, my dear sir?" "That femininity, as Miss Hendy calls it, should be brought so prominently forward in the person of an ass." "An ass? I don't understand! Are you serious?" "Serious! to be sure, my dear Bristles.
She was Neville all through, the Neville of the picture, except for the colour of the hair, and the soft femininity. And here she sat, prattling foolish dear! about "mamma," and "Aunt Alice," and "my tiresome sisters!" "Certainly you shall not pay for me! not a sou," said Hester flushing. "I have plenty of money. Take it please, at once."
"I never felt better. I've been neglecting my classes, I fear, in the study of your green gown. It is so very pretty." The girl smiled and colored a little. "I'm glad you like it," she said. "I like it, too." Then, with a sudden feeling of friendship, an odd sense of intimacy, a quick impulse of common femininity, she added: "I've had some good times in this dress.
He looked at her a moment, considering the sprightly beauty of her, the adorable femininity that from the first had so irresistibly attracted him. "One morning when I beheld you rehearsing a love-scene with Leandre." He caught the surprise that leapt to her eyes, before she veiled them under drooping lids from his too questing gaze. "Why, that was the first time you saw me."
He hung his head the veins in his forehead swelled there were actually tears in his eyes and the mighty effort he made to restrain a sob was terrible and six feet of American manhood, as fine a specimen of the animal as the soil can show, animated by a spirit which represented well the dignity of toil and self-respect, stood bowed down with ungovernable grief and shame before a merely ornamental bit of femininity.
She is a wonderfully fascinating little bit of femininity, and she has a heart of pure gold. All is, I envy the man who wins it for the man who wins that, wins her." There was no answer. Arkwright sat with his eyes on the moving throng outside the window near them. Perhaps he had not heard.
Begad, old man, I don't blame you for hunting down this wonderful bit of femininity. With a curiosity and an admiration that had been sharpened so keenly as yours, I'd go to the end of the world myself to have them satisfied." "I may be able to satisfy but one curiosity. And maybe not that. But who knows of Graustark?" "Don't give up before you've tried.
Now, however, she wished that she could do or say something aggressively mannish, for she felt herself dwindling away to the merest femininity, under a scrutiny which had its fascination, whether agreeable or disagreeable. "You must," he said, with really unwarrantable patronage, "have found that the study of medicine has its difficulties, you must have been very strongly drawn to it."
But Peggy switched her small skirts in an entirely different phase of femininity. "You never heard me holler," she said in a tone that was skilful admixture of defiance and tentative propitiation. "'Cause you had your head hid in Jennie's back," answered the General coolly unbeguiled.
She was not a very young woman, nor very pretty in fact, she was rather plain but when she leaned out to feed her pet and found a man looking up at her she proved her divine femininity beyond cavil. Was there ever a more womanly action? And I said to myself, "She is not handsome but God bless her, she is human!"
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