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"Worse luck to her if she invented Sapphics," added Herbert. "One of womankind's torments for mankind, eh?" said his neighbour. "And there are plenty more such," asserted Mrs. "It is only that one can't recollect and the men have suppressed them." "I think men praised them," said Jenny, "and that we remember the praise, not the works. For instance, Roswitha, or Olympia Morata, or Vittoria Colonna.
So, after a few futile attempts to darken her mind, Gedge put her down as a mere fool woman, and ceased to bother his head about her intellectual development. That came to him quite naturally. There is no Turk more contemptuous of his womankind's political ideas than the Gedges of our enlightened England. But on other counts she was a distinct asset.
'Very pretty of him and you, Ritchie; but he is not three parts of a boy or man who thinks of his womankind's wishes when there is anything spirited before him. 'Well, I suppose one may do one's duty without being three parts of a boy, said Richard, gravely.
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