A Woman-haterChatto & Windus, 1908 - 394 páginas |
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A. C. SWINBURNE admiration Ashmead asked Aunt Maitland Barfordshire beautiful better blushed cried croupiers Crown 8vo dear Demy 8vo dinner doctress dress Edward Severne English eyes face Fanny Dover Fcap fellow female flat back Frontispiece gave gilt top girl give hand Harrington head heart Hillstoke Homburg honour Illus illustrated boards Illustrated in colours Ina Klosking Islip looked Lord Uxmoor Mademoiselle Klosking male medium 8vo mind Miss Dover Miss Gale Miss Maitland Miss Vizard never night Novels PEG WOFFINGTON Photogravure picture cloth play Poikilus poor POPULAR EDITION post 8vo pounds pray Rhoda Gale round Severne's sing singer song soon Stories sure Taddington tell thing told took trente et quarante turned village Vizard Court voice Vols woman women word YOSHIO MARKINO young lady Zoe Vizard Zoe's
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Página 161 - So that it was our purifying influence he dreaded in secret, though he told the public he dreaded the reverse. "Again, female patients wrote to the journals to beg that female students might be admitted to come between them and the brutal curiosity of the male students, to which they were subjected in so offensive a way that more than one poor creature declared she had felt agonies of shame, even in the middle of an agonizing operation. "This being a cry from that public for whose sake the whole...
Página 231 - But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Página 201 - My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I: And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a
Página 231 - Take heed that ye do not your " alms before men, to be seen of them ; otherwise " ye have no reward of your Father which is in " heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, " do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypo•' crites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, " that they may have glory of men.
Página 353 - ... Ashmead how to proceed in case of a relapse, and provided him with materials. The ladies took a train, which arrived soon after ; and, being so fortunate as to get a lady's carriage all to themselves, they sat intertwined and rocking together, and Ina Klosking found relief at last in a copious flow of tears. Rhoda got her to Hillstoke, cooked for her, nursed her, lighted fires, aired her bed, and these two friends slept together in each other's arms. Ashmead had a hard time of it with Severne...
Página 166 - I lodged on a second floor. The first floor was very handsome. A young Englishman and his wife took it for a week. She was musical ; a real genius. The only woman I ever heard sing without whining, for we are, by nature, the medical and unmusical sex.
Página 160 - I have met so many womanish men in this business. All I know is, that my cheeks burned, and, for once in the fight, scalding tears ran down them. It was as if a friend had spat upon me. "What a chimera! What a monstrous misinterpretation of pure minds by minds impure! To us the dissecting-room was a temple, and the dead an awe, revolting to all our senses, until the knife revealed to our minds the Creator's hand in structural beauties, that the trained can appreciate, if wicked dunces can't. " And...
Página 180 - Pray do not make me unjust. This is a lady with a fine mind; and not a designing woman." "Oh, I don't say she has laid any plans; but these things are always extemporized the moment the chance comes. You can count beforehand on the instincts of every woman who is clever and needy, and on Vizard's peculiar weakness for women out of the common. He is hard upon the whole sex; but he is no match for individuals.
Página 156 - Is trigamy to be identified in their sweet souls with floral innocence, and their victims sitting by ? " " Such classifications are puerile and fanciful," said Miss Gale ; " but, for that very reason, they don't infect animals with trigamy. Novels are much more likely to do that.