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Now they were of the eccentric old man, who had been to him a father, and from whom he had received Spring Bank, together with the many peculiar ideas which made him the strange, odd creature he was, a puzzle and a mystery to his own sex, and a kind of terror to the female portion of the neighborhood, who looked upon him as a woman-hater, and avoided or coveted his not altogether disagreeable society, just as their fancy dictated.
The Queen will load you with gifts and, perhaps, greater happiness still, some other woman will smile on you." "You begin to think of such things over early," Ellerey answered. "You'll have your troubles soon enough that way, no doubt." "Already, Captain." "So soon?" "This is a southern country, and we begin early. Are you a woman-hater, as Stefan is?
"Dear me, are you a woman-hater?" she asked. He looked at her steadfastly. "I have made use of women as playthings," he confessed. "Until I met you I never thought of them as companions, as partners." She laughed at him through the darkness, and at the sound of her laugh his eyes glowed. "Really, I am very much flattered," she said. "You give me credit for intelligence, then?"
"A woman-hater?" she repeated. "Is he really?" "He is." Mr. Brown neglected to add that he also had declared himself a member of the same fraternity. Perhaps he thought it was not necessary. "A woman-hater!" Miss Graham fairly bubbled with mischievous joy. "Oh, jolly! now I'm CRAZY to meet him!" The assistant moved toward the hall door. "Very good!" he observed with grim determination.
"No, it is not. He is like me; he has only seen her once, as I have, and on the stage." "Fiddle-dee-dee. I tell you he is in love with her, over head and ears. He is wonderfully inflammable for a woman-hater. Ask Mr. Severne: he knows." "Mr. Severne, is my brother in love with that lady?"
It became a part of my daily program to bring back with me as I returned to the cave, masses of these splendid blossoms which I heaped before her shrine. I had reached the age of thirty-five and had heretofore been immune to feminine fascinations. I had even been characterized as a woman-hater, though this was an injustice.
I don't study women with a microscope, as our woman-hater does, but I notice a few things about them; and one is, that their eccentricities all give way at the first offer of marriage. I believe they are only adopted in desperation, to get married. What beautiful woman is ever eccentric? catch her! she can get a husband without.
"If you were as great a favourite with them as I am, you'd sing a different song, I know." "As great a fiddlestick!" ejaculated the other with infinite scorn, having the reputation of being as much of a woman-hater as Diogenes. "If I was as big an ass about those `chawming girls' as you call them, I tell you what I would do I'd go and hang myself!"
"Woman-hater as you are, I know you deem my hopes and fears as both unfounded; but, never mind, you will, I trust, know by experience some day or other, so, in consideration of that coming, happy time, will you inform me in what terms I can possibly have the presumption, to request of the lady's relative, that he graciously permit her to bestow her hand upon your humble servant?"
Lot had drawn these conclusions from the remarks of his own mother, who was troubled by many children and lacked that "faculty," as New England folk used to term it, for bringing them up cheerfully. "I guess we'll get a better supper if the girls are there," admitted Nuck, quietly. "But what'll they do?" demanded Robbie, the embryo woman-hater.
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