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He had looked into things and seen whether they were good, or at any rate popular, and endeavored to grasp and to make his own whatever he found to be so. He was hitherto unmarried, and was regarded generally by his friends as a non-marrying man. But Florence Mountjoy was powerful over him, and he set to work to make her his wife.
Not long ago I was at a cheery social gathering where the non-marrying tendency of modern men was being discussed. Someone put all the men into a good humour with the reminder that ‘by persistently remaining single, a
It only matters for girls," he plausibly continued "and then only for those on whom no one takes pity." "The trouble is," said Vanderbank but quite as if uttering only a general truth "that it's just a thing that may sometimes operate as a bar to pity. Isn't it for the non-marrying girls that it doesn't particularly matter? For the others it's such an odd preparation." "Oh I don't mind it!"
Therefore he had been set down as a non-marrying man "an awfully good fellow, but with queer ideas, you know," his many friends would say, and "Bully" Hayes, who knew him well, said that John Brabant was the only clean-living, single man in Fiji, and that if he ever did marry his wife would be "some bony Scotch person of about forty, with her hair screwed up into a Turk's knot at the back of her long head, and with a cold, steely eye like a gimlet.
"I recall you were rather homely as a child and merely nice and fresh-looking when you came out. You're one of those that improve with time." "Thanks," said the girl dryly. She was in no mood for the barren blossom of non-marrying men's compliments. "The trouble with you is the same as with me," pursued he.
Larger still is the number of those possessing the non-marrying temperament of which Bernard Shaw has written: ‘Barren the Life-Force passes it by.’ This rarely troubles them; they have a host of minor pleasures and interests which suffice; no storms of feeling, no pangs of stifled mother-longing ruffle the placid surface of their lives.
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