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ethe point of
interestis evaded by the brilliant womanunder a shower of irrelevant
conversational rockets; it is bridged by the discreet woman with a rustle
of silkas she passes smoothly forward to the nearest point of safety.
And this sort of prestidigitationjuggling the dangerous topic out of
sight until it can be reintroduced with safety in an altered shapeis a
piece of tactics among the true drawing-room queens.
The drawing-room isindeedan artificial place; it is so by our
choice and for our sins. The subjection of women; the ideal imposed
upon them from the cradleand wornlike a hair-shirtwith so much
constancy; their motherlysuperior tenderness to man's vanity and self-
importance; their managing arts - the arts of a civilised slave among
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good-natured barbarians - are all painful ingredients and all help to
falsify relations. It is not till we get clear of that amusing artificial
scene that genuine relations are foundedor ideas honestly compared.
In the gardenon the road or the hillsideor TETE-A-TETE and apart
from interruptionsoccasions arise when we may learn much from any
single woman; and nowhere more often than in married l [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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