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I had felt myself always to be in Mrs Fyne's view her husband's chess-player and nothing else a convenience almost an implement. "I am highly flattered," I said. "I have always heard that there are no limits to feminine intuition; and now I am half inclined to believe it is so. But still I fail to see in what way my sagacity, practical or otherwise, can be of any service to Mrs Fyne.
Maskull stood over her and looked down, deeply interested. He thought he had never seen anything half so feminine. Her flesh was almost melting in its softness. So undeveloped were the facial organs that they looked scarcely human; only the lips were full, pouting, and expressive. In their richness, these lips seemed like a splash of vivid will on a background of slumbering protoplasm.
David inquired amiably; "I'm obliged for an example, anyhow!" But Blair did not keep up the chaffing. The atmosphere of Mrs. Richie's house dominated him as completely as when he was a boy. He looked at her serene face, her simple, feminine parlor, the books and flowers and pictures, and thought of his mother and his mother's house.
"No, we do not want to get married," he said, positively. Then he said to Gladys, "I wish you would mind your own business." But he had to cope with the revival of a wonderful feminine wit of a fine old race in Gladys.
Cora and Ernestine, a well bred pair of Inas, without her pep, perhaps a shade less good looking, made their replies with none of the usual flutter of feminine curiosity and excitement, then went on in the living room. Skeet of course was as practical and brief as a sensible boy. "I don't know whether she's fit to see you," she said when I spoke of her mother.
Being a skilful horsewoman, she came on horseback, accompanied by a little band of feminine charmers destined to wheedle political secrets from friends and enemies alike a real "flying squadron of the queen," as it was called by a contemporary.
His good nature, the feminine quality of sympathy in his character, his freedom from all petty, quibbling prejudice, and his sublime patience all worked to burst the tough husk, and develop that shy and sensitive, yet uncouth and silent youth, bringing out the best that was in him.
And, oh Lud, it was time she was gone, or poor, dear Weston would be imagining her slaughtered on the highway. Geoffrey could not make much of this, but was pleased to take it as flattering feminine homage to his magnificence. By way of reward, he announced an intention of riding home with her carriage.
In the nature of things I cannot know what the lives of the women were like but of this one may be quite certain they talked only of women's affairs, thought only of women's affairs. No one of them ever had a lover. For years no man came near the house. Of them all only the youngest, the one who came to Chicago, was visibly affected by the utterly feminine quality of their lives.
There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews. None got so far as to define to themselves why there should be an apparent incompatibility between ruggedness and orthodoxy but there were some who hoped and more who feared.
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