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Then succeeded a period of such close application to her books that her parents and friends became alarmed lest she should injure herself. She ceased to smile upon her youthful admirers and treated them so curtly or talked to them so toploftily that she got the reputation of having become a man-hater. "And I was n't anything of the sort," she said to herself, smiling and smelling her roses.
"She's quite a character," chuckled Doctor Dave. "A most inveterate man-hater!" "Sour grapes?" queried Gilbert, laughing. "No, 'tisn't sour grapes," answered Captain Jim seriously. "Cornelia could have had her pick when she was young. Even yet she's only to say the word to see the old widowers jump. She jest seems to have been born with a sort of chronic spite agin men and Methodists.
Aunt Martha says I am to be her heiress if I please her which means but, oh, you do not know what "pleasing" Aunt Martha means. Aunt is a determined and inveterate man-hater. She has no particular love for women, indeed, and trusts nobody but Mrs. Saxby, her maid. I rather like Mrs. Saxby. She is not quite so far gone in petrifaction as Aunt, although she gets a little stonier every year.
"Oh times of folly and dissipation!" exclaimed a voice at some distance; "Oh mignons of idleness and luxury! What next will ye invent for the perdition of your time! How yet further will ye proceed in the annihilation of virtue!" Everybody stared; but Mrs Harrel coolly said, "Dear, it's only the man-hater!"
"Are you a man-hater?" he asked deliberately. She laughed a little. "Why do you ask such an absurd question?" He seemed to hesitate momentarily. "Because forgive me wouldn't you be a good deal happier if you were to marry again?" Again her colour rose hotly. What did the man mean by assuming this attitude? Was he about to plead his own cause, or that of another?
And therefore Diogenes, who passed away his time in rolling himself in his tub, and made nothing of the great Alexander, esteeming us no better than flies or bladders puffed up with wind, was a sharper and more penetrating, and, consequently in my opinion, a juster judge than Timon, surnamed the Man-hater; for what a man hates he lays to heart.
I wonder my uncle, with the powerful sense you describe him to be possessed of, does not see through such a villain. 'I believe he knows him to be capable of much evil, answered Lilias 'selfish, obdurate, brutal, and a man-hater. But then he conceives him to possess the qualities most requisite for a conspirator undaunted courage, imperturbable coolness and address, and inviolable fidelity.
Who ever shuddered with bitter alliterative kisses before Swinburne, and who has failed to do so since? Per contra, the ingenuous spinster taking her notions of love from Maupassant's "Bel-Ami," or Gabriele d'Annunzio's "Trionfo della Morte," becomes a man-hater. Yes, I fear that the artistic treatment of life has a good deal to answer for.
I'll begin to believe in the man-hater the day I am introduced to a woman who has definitely and finally refused a chance of marriage to aman who is of her own station in life, able to support her, unafflicted by any loathsome disease, and of reasonably decent aspect and manners in brief a man who is thoroughly eligible. I doubt that any such woman breathes the air of Christendom.
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