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She had so spoken on purpose, fighting her own battle after her own fashion, knowing well that her words would confuse him. 'A woman hides such tears. She may be found crying because she is unable to hide them; but she does not willingly let the other woman see them. Does she? 'I suppose not. 'Medea did not weep when she was introduced to Creusa. 'Women are not all Medeas, he replied.
In actual life, and among strong positive natures, the deepest feelings find no vent in the effervescence of passionate verbal outbreaks, and outside the charmed precincts of the tragic stage, the world would not tolerate the raving Hamlets and Othellos, the Macbeths and Medeas, that scowl and storm and anathematize so successfully in the magic glow of the footlights.
You must know, my son, that there lived in this city the most famous witch in the world, called Camacha de Montilla. She was so perfect in her art, that the Erichtheas, Circes, and Medeas, of whom old histories, I am told, are full, were not to be compared to her.
And why should I not call them mine, since they are so diligent observers of me that they are commonly called by my name? of which they are so far from being ashamed, they rather pride themselves in it. Let the foolish world then be packing and seek out Medeas, Circes, Venuses, Auroras, and I know not what other fountains of restoring youth.
Your modern Medeas are such poor creatures loathsome as Horace's Canidia, but without her genius or her power. "I am getting an old woman," sighed Mrs. Winstanley. "It is lucky I am not without resources against solitude and age."
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