Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain
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is probable, every variety of fashion in manners will become them also.
But probably The phrase the "New Woman" is not unlike the phrase the "New Chemistry": the materials are the same; what is new is the nomenclature. (3) A phrase (and not much more than a phrase) much in vogue in Europe and America in the last two decades of the nineteenth century of the area known as Christian. * * * A woman's peccadilloes are generally worse than a man's. At all events they are more reprobated. * * * Abashment intensifies a woman's love for him so making her abashed. And There is a shame that is sweeter than joy. (As There is a fear more tremulous than delight.) For Mastery is a woman's standard of man. And There is an element of the freest and frankest savagery in the most refined and spiritual of women. (How otherwise Can any one explain the extraordinary fable of Selene and Pan?(4) --And man? |
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