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The light in the room was subdued, coming mostly through crimson shades, and the faint, worn lines on Cynthia's face did not show; it looked, with her soft crown of gray hair, like a cameo against the crimson background of the chair. The man beside her looked at her with that impatience of his masculine estate and his superior youth, and yet with the adoration which nothing could conquer.
Between us we developed this incontrovertible proposition. "Then why," said Barbara, "don't you go at once to Harrod's Stores and purchase a comfortable home?" "Because, my dear Barbara," said Jaffery, "I'm starting off for the interior of China the day after to-morrow." "China?" echoed Barbara vaguely. "The interior of China?" I reëchoed, with masculine definiteness. "Why not?
Confining women wholly to their feminine functions, he has required of them only what he called feminine virtues, and the one virtue he has demanded, to the complete overshadowing of all others, is measured by wholly masculine requirements. In the interests of health and happiness, monogamous marriage proves its superiority in our race as it has in others.
"What did you say, Brier?" asked his better half, glancing at Clemence, as if she was the offending party, "you don't mean that a woman's got brass enough to mount a rostrum and harangue an audience?" "You've just said the very thing now, Marthy. I knew you would be down on that sort of business. Nothing masculine about you, thank goodness!
Persons straying into the church, as they often did, attracted by the sound of music, would declare the performer to be an experienced masculine musician. When but a year older, she was an excellent Latin scholar, and, to use her father's words, she might then have "gone in for honors at Oxford."
She had succumbed less to his gentleness than to the knowledge that it was she alone who evoked that gentleness out of a nature almost adamantine, wholly masculine.
You could not say a country was becoming a white man's country when there were more and more black men in it every day. You could not say a community was more and more masculine when it was producing more and more women. Nor can you say that a city is growing richer and richer when more and more of its inhabitants are very poor men.
'They are coming, said she to Brown; 'you are a dead man if ye had as mony lives as hairs. Brown eagerly looked round for some weapon of defence. There was none near. He then rushed to the door with the intention of plunging among the trees, and making his escape by flight from what he now esteemed a den of murderers, but Merrilies held him with a masculine grasp.
For my part, I really can't see the advantage of being the weaker sex if we are always to be as strong as our masculine neighbours. There was, indeed, no revival of the little sentiment which I had once experienced. When these things once expire, I do believe they are as hard to revive as our dead lap-dogs, guinea-pigs, and parrots.
Her story disturbed him more than he cared to let her see in her present condition of unwonted agitation. Twice in the past they had stood shoulder to shoulder through a crisis of sufficient magnitude and she had showed then a cautious judgment, a reliability of purpose that had been purely masculine in its strength and sanity.
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