a drive through a part of Derbyshire once with a couple ofladies. It was a beautiful bit of country, and they enjoyedthemselves immensely. They talked dressmaking the whole time.
"Pretty view, that," I would say, waving my umbrella round. "Look atthose blue distant hills! That little white speck, nestling in thewoods, is Chatsworth, and over there--""Yes, very pretty indeed," one would reply. "Well, why not get a yardof sarsenet?""What, and leave the skirt exactly as it is?""Certainly. What place d'ye call this?"Then I would draw their attention to the fresh beauties that keptsweeping into view, and they would glance round and say "charming,""sweetly pretty," and immediately go Maillot Croatie Pas CHer off into raptures over eachother's pocket-handkerchiefs, and mourn with one another over thedecadence of cambric frilling.
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Very young men think a good deal about clothes, but they don't talkabout them to each other. They would not find much encouragement. Afop is not a favorite with his own sex. Indeed, he gets a good dealmore abuse from them than is necessary. Maillot Roumanie Pas CHer His is a harmless failing andit soon wears out. Besides, a man who has no foppery at twenty willbe a slatternly, dirty-collar, unbrushed-coat man at forty. A littlefoppishness in a Halpa Naiset Cg Expedition Parka young man is good; it is human. I like to see ayoung cock ruffle his feathers, stretch his neck, and crow as if thewhole world belonged to him. I don't like Green Bay Packers Hattar a modest, retiring man.
Nobody does--not really, however much they may prate about modestworth and other things they do not understand.
A meek deportment is a great mistake in the world. Uriah Heap'sfather was a very poor judge of human nature, or he would not havetold his son, as he did, that people liked humbleness. There isnothing annoys them more, as a rule. Rows are half the fun of life,and you Columbus Blue Jackets Barn can't have rows with humble, meek-answering individuals. Theyturn away our wrath, and that is just what we do not want. We want tolet it out. We have worked ourselves up into a state of exhilaratingfury, and then just as we are anticipating the enjoyment of a vigorousset-to, they spoil all our plans with their exasperating humility.
Xantippe's life must have been one long misery, tied to that calmlyirritating man, Socrates. Fancy a married woman doomed to live onfrom day to day without one single quarrel with her husband! A manought to humor his Halpa Moncler Liivi Naiset wife in these things.
Heaven knows their lives are dull enough, poor girls. They have noneof the enjoyments we have. They go to no political meetings; they maynot even belong to the local amateur parliament; they are excludedfrom smoking-carriages on the Metropolitan Railway, and they never seea comic paper--or if they do, they do not know it is comic: nobodytells them.
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