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Elfride had her sex's love of sheer force in a man, however ill-directed; and at that critical juncture in London Stephen's only chance of retaining the ascendancy over her that his face and not his parts had acquired for him, would have been by doing what, for one thing, he was too youthful to undertake that was, dragging her by the wrist to the rails of some altar, and peremptorily marrying her.
No, she would have charged it upon the possession of brains by women, and have had a further motive for inciting the potent dignitary her husband to employ his authority to repress the sex's exercise of those fell weapons, hurtful alike to them and all coming near them. So extreme was her dread of Mrs.
Still, Bob might now be loved, without wounding any of the sensitiveness of her sex's opinions; and dearly, engrossingly, passionately was he rewarded, for the manner in which he had thought of letting her know the true state of his heart, at a moment when he had so much reason to think only of himself. It was time for Maud to return to her mother and sister.
Angelica is all ears when he talks; she looks at him with most kindly favour; she blushes like a rose when he kisses her hand, which she willingly leaves in his. And that is how an innocent girl expresses that inclination which truly blesses a man. There is no occasion for any of that romantic love which so often runs in your sex's heads in such a disturbing fashion."
Or will you shake off these vain complaints, the marks of our sex's weakness, and enjoy the world while you may? The very body that lyes there might make you envy life. We don't unwillingly obey when we're commanded to eat or live. The lady now dry with so long fasting, suffer'd her self to be o'recome; nor was she less pleas'd with her entertainment, than her maid, that first surrendered.
She wished she could think of some way of getting at its history in a properly colorless and indifferent way. Presently she made a venture. She said: "Whatever a man's age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole. I have often noticed that. Is that your sex's reason for wearing a boutonniere?"
I have the habit of thinking that my deliberations are not in my sex's fashion of taking counsel of the nerves and the blood. In truth, Harry, I should not have come but for my acknowledgement of your right to bid me come. 'You know, princess, that in honouring me with your attachment, you imperil your sovereign rank? 'I do. 'What next? 'Except that it is grievously in peril, nothing!
Thou art a singular compound of thy sex's weakness, and of manly resolution, belle Barbérie; but trust me," and he laid his hand on his heart with an earnestness that spoke well for his sincerity; "ere word, or act, to harm or to offend thee, should proceed from any who obey will of mine, nature itself must undergo a change. Start not, for I call one to show the specimens you would see."
'Constance can scarcely be his dupe so far, I should think. 'How do you mean? 'Everything points to one secret of his conduct. 'A woman? Lady Wathin's head shook for her sex's pained affirmative. Mr. Quintin in the same fashion signified the downright negative. 'The fellow's as cold as a fish. 'Flattery will do anything. There is, I fear, one. 'Widow? wife? maid?
The rest of the riddle you'll have to guess." Gazing insolently into her face, with his hands on his knees. "But you have told me nothing," she replied, striving to remain mistress of herself and to hide her apprehension. "Do you call that nothing? You have the approximate cause causa causans. Was it Cupid? No, for like Bacon, your sex's 'fantastical' charms move me not."
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