Modern daughters; conversations with various American girls and one man (1899)
Black, Alexander, 1859-1940 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 209
With an Engaged Girl defiance. You justify the gambling instinct when woman is the stakes.” “ It is cowardly to want to be sure.” “ It is worse than cowardly, for a man never can be sure. Yet a proposal is a big investment to a … wants to win he must attend to every point. I only wish to defend him against your accessories imputation. There are kinds of courage you wouldn’t wish him to have. He may look an enemy in the eye, but he must not face the woman to whom he proposes if he wishes her to believe that he has a spark of…
Women -- Social and moral questions
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