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Socrates alone was unaffected. "They'll come back some day, my dear Raleigh," he said, as the knight buried his face, weeping, in his hands. "So why repine? I'll never lose my Xanthippe permanently, that is. I know that, for I am a philosopher, and I know there is no such thing as luck. And we can start another club." "Very likely," sighed Raleigh, wiping his eyes.
"Servants, baby-food, floor-polish, and godets," I repeated, somewhat sheepishly, she took it so coolly. "Very well," said Xanthippe, with a note of amusement in her manipulation of the keys. "If those are your subjects, let us discuss them. I am surprised to find an able-bodied man like yourself bothering with such problems, but I'll help you out of your difficulties if I can.
As Xanthippe spoke, Lucretia Borgia burst into the room. "Hurry and save yourselves!" she cried. "The boat has broken loose from her moorings, and is floating down the stream. If we don't hurry up and do something, we'll drift out to sea!" "What!" cried Cleopatra, dropping her cue in terror, and rushing for the stairs. "I was certain I felt a slight motion.
"Feeling as you do about men, my dear Xanthippe, I don't see why you ever took a husband." "Humph!" retorted Xanthippe. "Of course you don't. You didn't need a husband. You were born with something to govern. I wasn't." "How about your temper?" suggested Ophelia, meekly. Xanthippe sniffed frigidly at this remark.
To me it has always seemed a strange thing that such an ugly, satirical, provoking man could have won and retained the love of Xanthippe, especially since he was so careless of his dress, and did so little to provide for the wants of the household. I do not wonder that she scolded him, or became very violent in her temper; since, in her worst tirades, he only provokingly laughed at her.
"But you objected to my calling you old chap when we first met," said I. "Is that quite consistent?" "Of course," retorted the lady. "We had never met before, and, besides, doctors do not always take their own medicine." "But that women ought to become good fellows is what you're going to advocate, eh?" said I. "Yes," replied Xanthippe. "It's excellent, don't you think?"
"I shall never yield to anything so undignified as seasickness, let me tell you that," retorted Xanthippe. "Furthermore, the proverb is not as the lady has quoted it. 'People who live in glass houses should not throw stones' is the proper version." "I was not quoting," returned Mrs. Noah, calmly.
"Well, we didn't all marry Xanthippe," put in Cæsar, firmly, "therefore we are not all satisfied with the situation. I, for one, quite agree with Sir Walter that something must be done, and quickly. Are we to sit here and do nothing, allowing that fiend to kidnap our wives with impunity?" "Not at all," interposed Bonaparte. "The time for action has arrived.
Xanthippe is not beloved, and I don't believe Parham will let her interfere with what he thinks best for the party. Will it pay to put me in the cabinet or not? that's what he'll ask. I shall be strongly backed, too, by most of our papers." A number of thoughts ran through Lady Tranmore's brain.
And if, living with Xanthippe and listening to her railings, he could yet attain to such heights of philosophy is it not possible that men like you and me might come, through his philosophy, to endure it? It is that which I am pondering while I am alone here in the desert; but my spirit is weak and that accursed camp robber made off with my volume of Plato."
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