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And nohoins was a predestinate old

bachelor, she was most certainly not a predestinate old maid Well,

that can be told very shortly to those who have not guessed it froiven the her considered

deterins, she

Mr Frederick Eynsford Hill is pouring out his love for her daily

through the post Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger

than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a

toff), and speaks like one; he is nicely dressed, is treated by the

Colonel as an equal, loves her unaffectedly, and is not her master, nor

ever likely to do Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all

women love to be o to women," says Nietzsche, "take your ith you" Sensible

despots have never confined that precaution to women: they have taken

their whips with them when they have dealt with men, and been slavishly

idealized by the men over whom they have flourished the whip much more

than by women No doubt there are slavish women as well as slavish er than the person and to live under that strong person's

thus The weak may not be admired and