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Title: A woman hater
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Reade, Charles, 1814-1884
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Publisher: Paris Boston : Printed for the Grolier Society
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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iremployers things, but not their own, you may be sure.There was a chemise carefully folded into the smallestpossible compass, and doubled over a horse at a good dis-tance from the cold stove. There were other garmentsand supplementaries, all treated in the same way. The Misogyn looked, and remarked as follows : Idiots !— at everything, but taking in the men. Having relieved his spleen with this courteous and com-prehensive observation, he piled log upon log, till thefire was half up the chimney. Then he got all the chairs,and made a semi-circle, and spread out the various gar-ments to the genial heat; and so close that, had a sparkflown, they would have been warmed with a vengeance, andthe superiority of the male intellect demonstrated. This-done, he retired, with a guilty air; for he did not wantto be caught meddling in such frivolities by Miss Doveror Miss Maitland. However, he was quite safe; thosesuperior spirits were wholly occupied with the loftier l/Valkmg slowly by his side
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A WOMAN-HATER. 87 things of the mind, especially the characters of theirneighbors. I must now go for these truants that are giving every-body so much trouble. When Eanny fell lame, and said she was very sorry,but she must go home and change her boots, Zoe was forgoing home too. But Fanny, doubting her sincerity, wasperemptory, and said they had only to stroll slovv^ly on,and then turn; she should meet them coming back.Zoe colored high, suspecting they had seen the last ofthis ingenious young lady. What a good girl! cried Severne. I am afraid she is a very naughty girl, said Zoe,faintly; and the first effect of Fannys retreat was tomake her a great deal more reserved and less sprightly. Severne observed, and understood, and saw he mustgive her time. He was so respectful, as well as tender,that, by degrees, she came out again, and beamed withyouth and happiness. They strolled very slowly by the fair river, and thepretty little nothings they said to each other began to bemere vehicles fo

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