"I have known all that! But the last do not always remain the last,"
she added, emphatically. "There are other qualities, besides beauty,
which count."
"What quality do you appreciate most in a man?"
"Kindness," she exclaimed, without the slightest hesitation. "For this
is a quality very rarely found in a man."
"Kindness and weakness usually go hand in hand; women admire
strength."
"What sort of women are you talking about? Rude strength has had its
day; our civilisation has reached a sufficiently high standard to make
us value muscles and rude strength no more highly than a kind heart."
"It ought to have! And yet--watch the dancing couples!"
"To my mind true manliness is shown in loftiness of sentiment and
intelligence of the heart."
"Consequently a man whom the whole world calls weak and cowardly...."
"What do I care for the world and its opinion!"
"Do you know that you are a very remarkable woman?" said the young
lawyer, feeling more and more interested.
"Not in the least remarkable! But you men are accustomed to regard
women as dolls...."
"What sort of men do you mean? I, dear lady, have from my childhood
looked up to woman as a higher manifestation of the species man, and
from the day on which I fell in love with a woman, and she returned my
love, I should be her slave.
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