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The duenna in charge was at that moment behind that very door, and her eye and her ear at the key-hole, turn about. Severne continued his remarks, but in a lower voice. "Then there's a woman-hater and a man-hater: good for dialogue."
Thus said Thurstane, a fellow as ignorant of the female kind as any man in the army, and scarcely less ignorant than the average man of the navy. He declared to himself that he would never have anything more to do with her, nor with any of her false sex. At twenty-three he turned woman-hater, just as Mrs. Stanley at forty-five had turned man-hater, and perhaps for much the same sort of reason.
What unmeasured contempt he pours out upon the lives and ambitions of most of them! Need a nature-lover, it is urged, necessarily be a man-hater? Is not man a part of nature? averaging up quite as good as the total scheme of things out of which he came? Cannot his vices and shortcomings be matched by a thousand cruel and abortive things in the fields and the woods?
"Well," said Paul, "if she looks at a man she says haughtily 'Nevermore, and if she looks at herself in the looking-glass she says disdainfully 'Nevermore, and if she thinks back she says it in disgust, and if she looks forward she says it cynically." Edgar considered this speech, failed to make much out of it, and said, laughing: "You think she's a man-hater?"
"Cynics real cynics never can." "But I am not a cynic." "Are you sure of that?" "Yes, quite sure." "And yet you tell me that you never take the trouble to flatter the inferior male. That's conflicting evidence, you know. Are you a man-hater, by the way?" She shivered as if at a sudden draught. "I'm not prepared to answer that question off-hand." she said. "Very prudent of you!" he commented.
When, later, he was accosted by an old college-chum, George Clifton, who proceeded to give him the newest confidential slander at the lake, it was but natural he should try to unravel this mystery. "What do you fellows mean by not surrounding that beauty over there? Where are your eyes?" he asked. "Miss Lafitte? We have dubbed her the man-hater.
With a heightened color Arabella answered, "Oh, she's a little body, who never cares to be known a perfect bookworm and man-hater." The words bookworm and man-hater produced upon George Clayton a far different effect from what Arabella had intended, and he often found himself thinking of the soft blue eyes of Mildred Graham.
There is always, to the afflicted, a certain charm in the depth and bitterness of eloquent misanthropy. And Dalibard, who professed not to be a man-hater, but a world-scorner, had powers of language and of reasoning commensurate with his astute intellect and his profound research. His society became not only a relief, it grew almost a want, to that stern sorrower.
The words really pricked her conscience, and to be scolded is one thing, to be severely and solemnly reproached is another; and before a man! The official woman-hater was melted in a moment by the saucy girl's tears. "There there," said he, kindly, "have a little mercy. Hang it all! Don't make a mountain of a mole-hill." The official man-hater never moved a muscle.
And, as he was debarred from making direct inquiries concerning her, or from hearing the current gossip of the neighborhood, he learned only that about her which his telescope revealed; and from this, with the aid of his imagination, he formed a conclusion and an erroneous one, very probably. His neighbor lived in strict seclusion, and was a man-hater.
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