little inclination and men go down on their knees at once; old or
ugly it is all the same, and this I set down as a positive truth. A
woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may
marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are
like the beasts of the field and don't know their own powers. They
would overcome us entirely if they did.--_The Newcomes._


As for women--O my dear friends and brethren in this vale of
tears--did you ever see anything so curious and monstrous and
annoying as the way in which women court Princekin when he is
marriageable!--_The Newcomes._


She was as gentle and amenable to reason, as good-natured a girl
as could be; a little vacant and silly, but some men like dolls for
wives.--_The Newcomes._


She had been bred to measure her actions by a standard which the
world may nominally admit, but which it leaves for the most part
unheeded. Worship, love, duty, as taught her by the devout study of
the sacred law which interprets and defines it--if these formed the
outward practice of her life, they were also its constant and
secret endeavor and occupation. She spoke but very seldom of her
religion, though it filled her heart and influenced all her
behavior. What must the world appear to such a person?--_The
Newcomes._