If it reaches you and gives you a thorough soaking, I
shall feel satisfied.
I have always known you were only half-developed. There are many such
people in the world. They serve their purpose and often do much good.
They miss a great deal of life, but as they rarely know that they miss
anything, it is a waste of sentiment to pity them.
I have pitied you, nevertheless. I have often wished I could give you
the vital qualities you lack.
My pity turned to indignation when I heard you express yourself in such
unqualified terms of condemnation regarding other women who happened to
be unlike you in temperament.
You say there is a certain line which no well-born and womanly woman can
pass in thought or feeling or action.
You regard the true women of earth as a higher and rarer order of
creation than the best of men, and any woman who by action or word
confesses herself to be quite human in her temperament, you feel is, to
a certain extent, "unclean and unsexed." You believe the really good
women of earth are always on a plane above and beyond the physical.
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