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But Macleod himself seemed, with some powerful effort of will, to have got the better of his sudden and fierce hate; he sat down again; he spoke in a low voice, but there was a dark look in his eyes. "No," said he, slowly, "she has not told me all about it. Well, she did tell me about a poor creature a woman-man a thing of affectation, with his paint-box and his velvet coat, and his furniture.
The subject was eminently suitable. The personage Rienzi was intended for a great, heroic figure and the music written for a brilliant tenor. A woman-man carries us back to the days of Handel and Gluck, and shows how little sincere Wagner was at the time, how absorbingly bent he was on tickling the ears of the Parisians.
Oh, that would be a fine chase, indeed! and we would lead them a fine dance through the Western Isles; and I think you would try their knowledge of the channels and the banks. And the painter-fellow, Hamish, the woman-man, the dabbler would he be in the boat behind us? or would he be down below, in bed in the cabin, with a nurse to attend him?
She was a woman of the world, as Stuart used to say. She would not quite throw me off she would not be quite frank with me until she had made sure of the other. And in her trouble of doubt, when she was trying to be better than herself, and anxious to have guidance, that was the guide she turned to the woman-man, the dabbler in paint-boxes, the critic of carpets and wall-papers!"
The bare idea of such wholesale slaughter was revolting to a Christian world. He probably did not see much difference between sinking a ship with a torpedo, and firing a shell into her magazine; and likely enough had as much respect for the opinions of the woman-man as he had for the man-woman.
She is full of idealisms. She could not explain all that to Mrs. Ross. I know. And when she found herself too weak to carry out her aspirations, she sought help. Is that it? She would gain assurance and courage from the woman-man?" He pushed the tumbler away; his hand was still trembling violently. "I will not touch that Ogilvie," said he, "for I have not much mastery over myself.
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