You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?
It is possible,β said Miss Marling stiffly, βthat Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the journey.β Vidal chuckled. βNot if I know my Mary,β he replied
