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To-day a woman, who possibly for ten years has been leading her own life of independent work, earning her own living, choosing her own conditions in accordance with her own needs, and selecting her own periods of recreation in accordance with her own tastes, whether or not this may have included the society of a man-friend such a woman suddenly finds on marriage, and without any assertion of authority on her husband's part, that all the outward circumstances of her life are reversed and all her inner spontaneous movements arrested.
Thrale abruptly proposed to start for Bath, as wishing to avoid the sight of the funeral. She had no man-friend to go with her, and so he offered his services. Johnson at that moment arrived. 'I expected that he would spare me the jaunt, and go himself to Bath with her; but he made no motion to that effect. European Mag. xiii. 315.
I had no friend, not one, you see, miss Barbara, I mean except Arthur, and he never has much to say about anything, though he's as true as steel; and I thought it would be bliss to have a man-friend I mean a good man for a real friend, and I knew Richard would be that, though he was a brother! Most brothers are not friends to poor girls.
There's something wrong: of course, I can see that. I think you've been crying, and you don't shed tears for a trifle. Now you come and ask me for money. If it will do you good, take all you want. But I've an uncomfortable suspicion that harm may come of it." "Why not treat me just like a man-friend? I'm old enough to take care of myself." "You think so, but I know better. Wait a moment.
The Grey One had been badly hurt in that sadly sensitive period which follows the putting away of girlish things when womanhood is new and wonderful. She was slow to heal. Few men interested her, but she needed a man-friend, some one to take her in hand. She had needed such a one for years. He would have been of little use, had he not come at this time.
However, in the autumn of 1818, William paid a visit to some relations at Uttoxeter, and there made the acquaintance of the Botham girls, who discovered that this young man-Friend shared nearly all their interests, and was full of sympathy with their studies and pursuits. Before the end of the year Mary Botham was engaged to William Howitt, he being then six-and-twenty and she nineteen.
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