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Over the shoulder of this queer looking person of whose sex it was hard to be sure Louise could see an open letter that was evidently being perused not for the first time. The hands that held the letter were red and hard and blunt-fingered, but not large. They did not look feminine, however; not in the least.

The two grandmothers, who have carried the little maiden upon their backs, now tell and sing to her by turns all the legends of their most noted female ancestors, from the twin sisters of the old story, the maidens who married among the star people of the sky, down to their own mothers. All her lullabies are feminine, and designed to impress upon her tender mind the life and duties of her sex.

Well, he has a certain disclosure or proposal to make, which you will be pleased to take into your most serious consideration. I, for my part, cannot help being endowed with my own gifts, and if I happen to possess a magnet to attract feminine sensibility, it is to heaven I owe it, and not to myself." "It is," said the father, "glory be to his name!"

A daintily brought-up feminine creature would think twice, nay, fifty times, before she would run the risk of allowing her delicate body to be lashed by whips wielded by the merciless hands of a couple of her own sex such a prospect of degradation, pain, shame, and outraged vanity would be more effectual to kill the brute in her than all the imposing ceremonials of courts of law and special juries.

Most of Mary-'Gusta's feminine friends and acquaintances rated him "perfectly splendid" and regarded Edna Keith with envious eyes. This morning both he and the Keith girl were arrayed in the gayest of summer regalia.

Yet our ministers appreciated the intelligence and piety of their feminine parishioners. An agent who came from the West for school-teachers was told by our own pastor that five hundred could easily be furnished from among Lowell mill-girls. Many did go, and they made another New England in some of our Western States. The missionary spirit was strong among my companions.

The depth of what was unusual in Hilda's relation with Alicia Livingstone perhaps it has been plain that they were not quite the ordinary feminine liens seems to me to be sounded in the tacit acceptance of Hilda's novitiate on its merits that fell between the two women. The full understanding of it was an abyss between them, across which they joined hands, looking elsewhere.

This feminine flight was too swift for Austin Turold to follow. "What has that to do with what we are talking about?" he demanded. "When we reached the door last night it was Thalassa who let us in, with his hat and coat on, ready to go out. There was something strange and furtive about his manner, too, for I never took my eyes off him, and I'm sure he had something on his mind.

Such people will ask you with a clever air why the servile wars were always the most fierce; desperate and atrocious of all wars. And you may make such answer as you can even the eminently feminine one, if you choose, so typical of the women's literal mind. "I don't see what this has to do with it!"

Concha felt stirred with feminine sentimentality, that superficial, whimsical, sensitiveness that made her friends look on her as a great artist. The music filled her with tenderness; she strove to keep back the tears that came to her eyes, why, she could not tell. Suddenly she stopped playing and looked around anxiously. The painter was behind her, she fancied she felt his breath on her neck.