Lawrence, D: Assorted Articles (Classic Reprint)

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It is a queer reversal Of the Victorian order. Father Winces and bridles and trembles in his study or his library, and the innocent maiden knocks you flat with her outspokenness in the conservatory. And you have to admit that she is the man of the two; of the three, maybe. Especially when she says, rather sternly, I hope you didn't let daddy see what you thought of him! But what do I think of him? I gasp. Oh, it's fairly Obvious she replies coolly, and dismisses the point.

I admit the young are a little younger than I am or a little Older, which is it? I really haven't spent my years cultivating prunes and prisms, yet, con fronted with a young thing of twenty-two, I Often find myself with a prune-stone in my mouth, and I don t know what to do with it.

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