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Updated: May 15, 2025
"And as to the stay-strings, to continue your delicate metaphor, you can always cut them when you like." "Yes. And then there's the devil to pay. She shows you the ends and makes you believe they're dripping blood and tears. Don't I know 'em? They're the same from Cape Horn to Alaska, from Dublin to Rio." He bellowed forth his invective. He had no quarrel with marriage as an institution.
"Mercy upon us!" cried my aunt; for here was Darthea on the floor, and burnt feathers and vinegar at hand, servants running about, my aunt ordering "Cut her stay-strings!" as I was turned out, hearing my aunt declare, "I do believe she is in love with all the men. Is it you or the captain? What a shameless monkey to tumble all of a heap that way! It is hardly decent. Do go away, you goose!
Chairmen splashed us as they passed; and impudent dandies powdered and patched and laced and bewigged like any fizgig of a girl would have elbowed us from the wall to the gutter for the sport of seeing M. Radisson's moccasins slimed. "Egad," says M. Radisson, "an I spill not some sawdust out o' these dolls, or cut their stay-strings, may the gutter take us for good and all! Pardieu!
"Oh, you you were born to be married," he said crushingly. "And so are you," I retorted. "I? I tie myself to the stay-strings of a flip of a thing in petticoats, whom I should have to swear to love, honour and obey ?" "My good fellow," I interrupted, "it is the woman who swears obedience." "And the man practises it. Ho! Ho! Ho!"
If I want a woman, I like to take her by her hair and swing her up behind me on the saddle and ride away with her " "Lord! That's lovely," said I. "How often have you done it?" "I've never done that exactly, you silly ass," said he. "But that's my attitude, my philosophy. You see how impossible it would be for me to tie myself for life to the stay-strings of one flip of a thing in petticoats."
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