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You have given everything and received nothing in return." "That is exactly what I like always to give, never to receive." "That is not woman's way usually. But you are very exceptional. Pardon a possibly indiscreet question do you write?" "Good gracious! Do I look like a blue-stocking?" "I never made a distinct picture of that type." "You need not be afraid, I am not an authoress.
Let an ugly but witty woman be asked if she would change her wit against beauty, and she will not hesitate in saying no. Why? Because, knowing the value of her wit, she is well aware that it is sufficient by itself to make her a queen in any society. But a learned woman, a blue-stocking, is not the creature to minister to a man's happiness. Positive knowledge is not a woman's province.
"'I suppose, she said, bending her head and absently pouring sand between her fingers 'I suppose you think me a blue-stocking, or something odious? "'Not exactly, I said. There was an emphasis in my voice that made her color. After a moment she laid the sunshade down, still open. "'May I hold it? I asked. "She nodded almost imperceptibly.
Are they rich, Patricia?" "I don't know," answered Patty; "papa never said anything about that. He said that they are a very literary family." "Humph," said Aunt Isabel, "then I guess they haven't very much money; literary people never do have. Poor child, I suppose they'll turn you into a regular little blue-stocking."
We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking, and so grotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
Patty and Marian took the back seat of the open carriage, Mr. Hepworth and Kenneth Harper sat facing them. As Marian had already become very much interested in her new fad of authorship, and as under Miss Fischer's tuition she was rapidly developing into a real little blue-stocking, it is not strange that the conversation turned in that direction.
Assuredly humanity, as this great painter saw it, could not be beautiful; one asks one's self what maiden in her teens, a pretty face, would have done in the midst of these good, plain folk, stunted and elderly, with faces like wrinkled apples. A simple accessory most of the time, woman is for him merely a termagant or a blue-stocking who has turned the corner."
Bonaparte crushed the letter in his hands, and exclaimed, as he threw it in the fire: "That a blue-stocking, a manufactress of sentiment, should dare to compare herself to Josephine! I shall not answer these letters!" He did not answer them, but Madame de Staël did not, or rather would not, understand his silence.
These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known, it may be worth while to relate it. One of the most eminent members of those societies, when they first commenced, was Mr. Stillingfleet, whose dress was remarkably grave, and in particular it was observed, that he wore blue stockings.
That you preferred me to Trevanion? Oh, Nancy!" "As though a girl must care for six feet of flesh without brains because she isn't a blue-stocking. Why why couldn't you see, Bob?" "And I say oh, Nancy, does this mean that you care for me love me?" "I'm afraid I do," she half-laughed, half-sobbed. "Afraid?" "Yes, don't you see? You are not in the least like the man I wanted to love.
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