Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain
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page 75 of 191 (39%)
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It is to be feared that the men and women who love but once and forever are not usually to be found outside of romances. With women, love is a river, ever-flowing, from the brook in girlhood, (4) to the estuary of womanhood. Like a river, too, Woman's love is fed by all the streams it meets. On the other hand, With man, love is a geyser. (4) Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet. --Longfellow, "Maidenhood" * * * The languishing lover has gone out of date; he has been replaced by the diverting one. And the change is significant of much: The early nineteenth-century maid pretended to ignorance; the early twentieth-century maid to omniscience. The early nineteenth-century suitor protested; but The early twentieth-century suitor has to contest. In the one case, The woman tacitly acknowledges an inequality. In the other case, The man has to openly to recognize his equal. Nevertheless, |
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