Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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page 70 of 119 (58%)
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Jack Copley (when left alone with his spouse): "Kitty, I wonder,
why you invited Egeria to travel in the same party with Atlas." Mrs. Jack (fencing): "Pooh! Atlas is safe anywhere." Jack: "He is a man." Mrs. Jack: "No; he is a reformer." Jack: "Even reformers fall in love." Mrs. Jack: "Not unless they can find a woman to reform. Egeria is too nearly perfect to attract Atlas; besides, what does it matter, anyway?" Jack: "It matters a good deal if it makes him unhappy; he is too good a fellow." Mrs. Jack: "I've lived twenty-five years and I have never seen a man's unhappiness last more than six months, and I have never seen a woman make a wound in a man's heart that another woman couldn't heal. The modern young man is as tough as--well, I can't think of anything tough enough to compare him to. I've always thought it a pity that the material of which men's hearts is made couldn't be utilized for manufacturing purposes; think of its value for hinges, or for the toes of little boys' boots, or the heels of their stockings!" Jack: "I should think you had just been jilted, my dear; how has Atlas offended you?" |
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