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Our pastors are erudite as Abelard, and rigid as Trappists; our young ladies are learned as that ancient blue-stocking daughter of Pythagoras, and as pious as St. Salvia, who never washed her face. You look incredulous, my fair cousin. Nay, permit me to complete the inventory of the acquirements of your future companions.
Hal, who had entered that moment, laughed heartily. "So I say, Aunt Hildy. Our Emily is going to be a blue-stocking, I fear. Housework will suffer before long, for housework and book cannot go together." "No more than ploughs and plaster," I added.
Unless when Garrick or some famous French actor was invited to give a recital, no diversion of any kind was allowed at these gatherings; card-playing was not tolerated, and the guests were supposed to find ample enjoyment in the discussion of bookish topics. Why Mrs. Montagu's assemblies were dubbed the Blue-Stocking Club has never been definitely decided.
We hate the feminine poacher on our particular preserves! We consider that women were made to charm and to amuse us not to equal us. Do you see? When a woman is clever perhaps cleverer than we are she ceases to be amusing and we must be amused! We cannot have our fun spoiled by the blue-stocking element, though you YOU do not look in the least 'blue'!" She turned from him in a mute vexation.
The Blue-stocking, constantly running her nervous fingers up her forehead into her hair, has given to Girton a style of its own, equivalent to none at all. Fashion is more sensible than most things. If it changes with a rapidity that dazzles man, is not that only because man is stupid? To study hair-dressing in du Maurier's pictures, is to study the growth of the nineteenth-century woman's mind.
"By the way, Callender," I said animatedly, striking down the page that had recalled her with my finger, "What has become of your little blue-stocking friend? Don't you know her book was just out when I sailed, 'On Mount Latmos, 'On Latmos Top, what was it?" A dark flush burnt its way up to the black, straight hair.
"Not that it much matters," he added, in a less prejudiced voice. "The point is, we must prove her to be innocent whether she is nor not. I happen to feel positive she is. She isn't the least the siren type of woman, though men like her." "What type is she?" "The intellectual type. Not a blue-stocking! God forbid! I couldn't defend a blue-stocking.
I have been reading the 'Life and Writings of Rufus Choate. I am getting to be a complete Bostonian." "Have you read it all? I never heard of him. Who was he?" "He was an extremely clever man. He must have been very nice, and his speeches are splendid. You ought to read them." "Joe, you are going to be a regular blue-stocking! The idea of spending your time in reading such stuff.
Montagu and her "conversation parties," but there SEEMS some truth in the contention of Hannah More that those "blue-stocking" meetings did much to rescue fashionable life from the tyranny of whist and quadrille. Whether Mrs.
I unlapped myself; and though the sweet airs took my fancy, they never imprisoned my soul." "Vastly poetical! quite in the blue-stocking style." "Blue-stocking! Dear mother, that expression is not elegant enough for you. That commonplace taunt is unworthy of my mother," said Mr. Beaumont, warmly, for he was thrown off his guard by the reflection implied on Miss Walsingham.
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