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Updated: May 5, 2025
While Darby clapped his hands together, proud beyond measure at his success as the emancipator of his woman-ridden friend. Neither heard the door open nor saw Angy standing on the threshold, half paralyzed with fear and amazement, thinking that she was witnessing the mad delirium of a dying man, until she called out her husband's name.
"He's about the only Man in the woman-ridden place; after this I shall be ashamed to look him in the face. "When Mrs Bust was taking away my supper to-night she requested me not in future to speak to her daughter as 'Cissy. It was so very marked. I was not in the mood to receive the rebuff calmly, and she simmered down. Young girls got such strange ideas in their heads, she said.
This is a tragedy of which few men know the existence and certainly no man in these woman-ridden isles can ever have experienced. Men always treat with derision the woman anxious for matrimony, and gibe equally at the spinster who fails to attain it.
He had the air of a man who had seen an abyss yawning under his feet. "If I want to kill him, this is my time," thought Heyst; but he did not move. Next moment Mr. Jones jerked his head up, glaring with sardonic fury. "I have a good mind to shoot you, you woman-ridden hermit, you man in the moon, that can't exist without no, it won't be you that I'll shoot.
Ah! the Irish soldiers might well say after the Boyne, "Change kings with us and we will fight it over again." Indeed, the fight was not fair between the two. 'Twas a weak, priest-ridden, woman-ridden man, with such puny allies and weapons as his own poor nature led him to choose, contending against the schemes, the generalship, the wisdom, and the heart of a hero.
At times the march measured a full day's length amid the columned aisles of the forest temple through lush green glades dank and steaming in the August heat, or over hillsides slippery with the fallen leaves of the pine-trees. Anon it traced the crooked windings of some brawling mountain stream through thicket tangles where, you would think, no woman-ridden horse could penetrate.
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