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"It sounds rather a manless Eden except for the nice, lame Herrick person," said Elisabeth at last, and her hyacinth eyes, with their curiously veiled expression, rested consideringly on Sara's face, alight with interest as she had vividly sketched the picture of her life at Monkshaven. "Yes, I suppose it is rather," she admitted.
Ten years after her marriage her husband retired from active business. He busied himself now with his real estate, with mysterious papers, documents, agents. He was forever poking around the house at hours when a household should be manless, grumbling about the waste where there was none, peering into bread boxes, prying into corners never meant for masculine eyes.
"This may be a sort of Eden I hope we'll find it so. But it's going to be a manless one. There'll be no men here until we get ready to go away, if I can help it except as visitors." "Well, I guess we can get along without them all right, for a change," said Dolly, blushing a little.
I had enough cut before he got back to show him I knew how, and as he came back manless he was delighted as well as surprised. I was glad because I really like to mow, and besides that, I am adding feathers to my cap in a surprising way.
For the sake of greedy, low-minded fellows, the summons of her war-pipes would be heard in them no more, or would sound in vain among the manless rocks; from sheilin, cottage, or clachan, would spring no kilted warriors with battle response! The red deer and the big sheep had taken the place of men over countless miles of mountain and moor and strath!
About the tractor two mechanics fluttered. At command from Dick they cranked the motor and started it on its way. "This is the porch," Dick said. "Just imagine we're all that future farmer sitting in the shade and reading the morning paper while the manless, horseless plowing goes on."
He nodded, turned, hesitated, looked at her, turned and walked away. She remained at the window watching him depart. 'Now, dear, we are manless, said Olive in a whisper. But her attempt at a joke fell dead. Everybody was silent and uneasy. He hurried down the platform, wincing at every stride, from the memory of Helena's last look of mute, heavy yearning.
Then, quite suddenly, one day I stepped out of the peace of manless primality into the presence of man and peace was gone. It happened thus: I had been following a ravine downward out of a chain of lofty hills and had paused at its mouth to view the lovely little valley that lay before me.
About five o'clock Lise was coming home along Fillmore Street after an uneventful, tedious and manless holiday spent in the company of Miss Schuler and other friends when she perceived Mr. Tiernan seated on his steps, grinning and waving a tattered palm-leaf fan. "The mercury is sure on the jump," he observed. "You'd think it was July." And Lise agreed.
She could have laughed hysterically, as the escaping women had laughed, when she realized that the fear of such a catastrophe was overcoming graver horrors. Perhaps it was well to have a counter-irritant. Though Annesley Grayle was the only manless woman in the foyer, the people who sat there with one exception did not stare.
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