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d was made for them.-

but onlookers regard them partly with amusement, partly with pi

ver of such a woman. -What the woman thinks . . . what the woman thinks, prob

is in love is to pr

essity of refining gold or painting the lily is

than another to a hot-headed lover, it is

ficult to deceive. Lovers who have to

d mark how, and for wh

e incessant warfare with the world for her, that perhaps is not so easy. But it is the

constant replenishing: no flame can burn without a feed

d both lover and lass to the care nece

ssing whim; whereas in sober reality

man, is like

they are always harboring the belief that it may

himself in his mistress that

e who does not regret she did n

not to be envied who has

city of its lovers; age somet

e beloved know that an ocean of love could be s

ther to confide o

ery big ship, and a very small s

and natural shocks that love is heir to-is not altogether pain, though at the moment it may see

choose to have missed

's pangs arises from the thought that the

ce of oneself for the other th

self-love in the very e

urn?) It is when one of the parties declares him-or her-self insolvent that the accou

the more flawless doe

sincerity of love is th

s that it begins not to content it

ead love is that it fo

g may be of love. (1) Still it is not to be

lovers true is a nail

ove we remember the sweet

ver bitter

is integratis est." -Te

merable people have sai

uties of the starry heavens are revealed in it; but when it she

er ever lov

of a tired lover?

outhful lover; but when the seance is over he

er's heart is impotent to expr

wishes as an egg

o lover seems able to s

ch for a formula for the summation of an infinite series of w

her lover, a woman herse

o

a man, they are stimulat

i

we have but to come into the light of their counte

a more potent force than any yet revealed to them. It has not yet

lmes speaks of "celebrici

e relationship of a youthfu

is difficul

is dethroned, she still worships her remembrance of her

verted his loved one is dethrone

woman's abhorrence: as a cal

into the hands of his mist

will shield through thick and th

asks is, not, "Is he right or wrong?" but,

o get her lover

n who love but once and forever are not

g, from the brook in girlhood, (4) to th

all the streams it me

love is

ng with re

brook and

low, "Ma

ting one. And the change is significant of much: The early nineteenth-century

enth-century sui

ntury suitor has to co

nowledges an inequali

ly to recognize his

t materially vary from century to century, much as c

n seeks in a wom

mething perfectly and P

ated woman have love o

cupy is: with her head on her lover's heart. At

eart by one woman ousts fro

one as he would regard fashion-plates. To the y

o it. And the woman's hesitation at the brink of th

y and at a stroke. A woman's he

r more of the senses or of the imagination than of the hea

contemplation of the object of his love. A woman is

a curious pleasure to compare

o calculate pros and cons; a man, in simila

ove. Perhaps she does; but most men will think one private tuto

to regard with somewhat mixed feeli

y a first love, if the second is no whi

was not he (or she) who first taught his (or h

hat amazes, that beaut

beautifies and co

e daisies rosy;

her heart to one lover

on; the second is som

ll contrive to make all her lo

dy a pleasure to gi

flict between the desire of the flesh and the rese

son in the blood. When (and if) in a tortuous love, a man arrives at a 'Don't give a damn' stage, he is not to

of his rival, but by the equanimity with which his lad

yet, often enough, as a simple matter of fact, 118 Masculine diff

e that audacity evokes pert

e that audacity evokes pert

s to the gallant; she gives herself t

laisance that permits a woman to give e

ilent and sensitive depths of the diffid

ellation among the stars; yet he would have her at the same time terrestrial and tangible. When the woma

ossible task: the realization

that the corona ap

d be proved composed of terrestrial vapors. And if it did (as no doubt

ever destroy beauty-an

s priestess, is a daedal sp

s ever wors

ip, nothing ca

nor taint nor s

best and most of youth and l