This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII IDLE WIVES HAD John come home that afternoon a little after four-thirty, he would have experienced an intangible and annihilating fear. Excluding actors, public lecturers, soiree poets, and village rectors, men shrink from women. Women, as a principle, they worship; as persons, they love; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII IDLE WIVES HAD John come home that afternoon a little after four-thirty, he would have experienced an intangible and annihilating fear. Excluding actors, public lecturers, soiree poets, and village rectors, men shrink from women. Women, as a principle, they worship; as persons, they love; but women, especially en bloc, they flee from. This would be remarkable were it not for the fact that fine-minded women themselves detest "hen-parties" and prefer the company of men. "I hate women," they say, "and I don't trust them." So with Anne, who writhed secretly in the presence of her friends. For at that moment of the otherwise pleasant afternoon, nine women hid the excellent furniture of the sitting-room. They were harmless and dull. One would never have dreamt, from looking at five of them, that they had gone through the divine and elemental terrors of bringing children into the world; that they had faced and surrendered wholly to the mystery of life, the process that has fretted the heavens with stars and Earth with creative creatures; that they had once had a youth overrunning with possibilities. Massage had rubbed off the kisses of love, and layers of fat buried the dreams. They were "business" friends, --wives or daughters of business associates. They came to "keep up"; Anne had them to "keep up." Most of them had "come along" in recent years, and were "getting on." It was wise to keep in touch with the wife of the Eastern Traffic Manager of the Transcontinental Express Company and the others: though they couldn't understand Anne. She was queer and unapproachable. She refused to be thoroughly conventional. She had a strange streak in her. So there they sat, plain and handsome, tall and short, fat and thin, intensifying the...
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