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One thing at least reason may discern: that a man but partly chooses, he also partly forms, his help-mate; and he must in part deserve her, or the treasure is but won for a moment to be lost. 'Love, he wrote, 'is not an intuition of the person most suitable to us, most required by us; of the person with whom life flowers and bears fruit.
Do you believe there can be such a thing as love at first sight?" "I can't tell. Perhaps " "There's no 'perhaps. I've found that out to-night. I believe love that comes at sight must be the only real love a sort of electric call from soul to soul. The thing that's happened is just this: I've met the one woman my help-mate.
His master was a man of violent temper, who, finding he possessed little aptitude for shoemaking, tried to make him love it, first by flogging, and afterwards by half-starvation; following in the last-named measure the advice of his miserly help-mate, who believed it the best way of developing genius.
Then read Ecclesiastes 7:29, and compare it with Romans 5:16; Ephesians 2:1-3. 'God made men upright, but they have sought out many inventions. If thou wouldst know whether the man were first beguiled, or the woman that God made an help-mate for him? Read Genesis 3:6, and compare with 1 Timothy 2:14. Read Romans 5:12-15, and compare it with Genesis 3:17.
If you hadn't those qualities you'd have been a failure from my point of view. You see, I hadn't had time to fall in love with you then. And I wanted you for a 'help-mate' in the literal sense of the word. It seems a pretty sordid sense, looking back from where we've got to now. But that was my scheme. A mean, cowardly scheme!
Most of the matter might have been written in Chinese for any definite meaning that it conveyed to my brain. "I wish you could translate it into English for me," I said, pathetically, to my help-mate. "Well, it is a translation." "Then I'd better try my luck with the original." "It is certainly rather deep for a layman."
And Helmsley nodded gravely. "That's very true!" "A woman who really loves a man," went on Angus, mechanically fingering the skeins of lace thread which lay on the table at Mary's side, ready for use "governs him, unconsciously to herself, by the twin powers of sex and instinct. She was intended for his help-mate, to guide him in the right way by her finer forces.
The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought for his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
To share the cares and sweets of sovereignty, he had taken unto himself a help-mate, one of that excellent kind called stirring women; that is to say, she was one of those notable little housewives who are always busy when there is nothing to do.
I used to think he might take to Eliza Pratt; she's a good girl, and very pretty; but I see no likelihood of it now. 'No, indeed. said Rebecca, with some emphasis: 'Mr. Tryan's heart is not for any woman to win; it is all given to his work; and I could never wish to see him with a young inexperienced wife who would be a drag on him instead of a help-mate.
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