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"I can't see why Mrs. Brice, isn't that her name? doesn't take him to her house. Yankee women are such prudes." Virginia began to rock slowly, and her foot tapped the porch. "Mrs. Brice has begged the Judge to come to her. But he says he has lived in those rooms, and that he will die there, when the time comes." "How you worship that woman, Virginia!
"Please! I am not quite so bad as that. Believe me, I should rejoice for you if you had children. Leonore would have made a wonderful mother. Even I might be respectable if a woman such as she loved me as she loves you. But," he grew flippant again, "to marry one of those nose-in-the-air, soulless, school-teacher prudes Never!
The women of Nevada have enjoyed equal suffrage for some time; they are wide awake and interested in all public affairs. Besides being domesticated, they are intellectual and energetic. There are very few "prudes" among them, and a great many diplomats. Nowhere more than in Reno is developed among men and women a sense of being individual.
A word from him in the legitimate quarters of power went further than an harangue from another; and even the prudes at least, all those who had daughters confessed that his lordship was a very interesting character.
Madame di Negra had collected but a small circle round her; still it was of the elite of the great world, not, indeed, those more precise and reserved /dames de chateau/, whom the lighter and easier of the fair dispensers of fashion ridicule as prudes; but nevertheless, ladies were there, as unblemished in reputation, as high in rank, flirts and coquettes, perhaps, nothing more; in short, "charming women," the gay butterflies that hover over the stiff parterre.
Librarians and library boards cannot be too careful about what constitutes the collection which is to form the pabulum of so many of the rising generation. This does not imply that they are to be censors, or prudes, but with the vast field of literature before them from which to choose, they are bound to choose the best.
The result is that many prudes are shocked, and people who have no real objection to certain subjects or ideas denounce plays embodying them because this hypocrisy of language has been abandoned. The Censor, of course, is one obstacle to plain speaking.
Already through his addled brain he heard the monotonous creak-creak of rocking-chair gossip, the sly jest of the smoking-room, the whispered excitement of the kitchen all the sophisticated old worldlings hoping indifferently for the best, all the unsophisticated old prudes yearning ecstatically for the worst! "If we have to stay out here all night?" he repeated wildly.
Sir Austin was a spectator from the cover of a plantation by the river-side, unknown to his son, and, to the scandal of her sex, Lady Blandish accompanied the baronet. He had invited her attendance, and she, obeying her frank nature, and knowing what The Pilgrim's Scrip said about prudes, at once agreed to view the match, pleasing him mightily.
In England, where this wisely free comradeship is regarded as "improper", the perfectly harmless and natural sexual feeling is either dwarfed or forced, and so we have "prudishness" and "fastness". The sweeter and more loving natures become prudes; the more shallow as well as the more high-spirited and merry natures become flirts.
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