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Marlow paused with a whimsical look at ar in his teeth He took it out now by an ample

movement of his arm and blew a thin cloud

"You smile? It would have been more kind to spare my blushes But as a

matter of fact I need not blush This is not vanity; it is analysis

We'll let sagacity stand But we acity in this

connection stands for When you see this you shall see also that there

was nothing in it to alarm my modesty I don't think Mrs Fyne credited

me with the possession of wisdom tempered by coes of Antiquity, she would not have been moved

to confidence or admiration The secret scorn of women for the capacity

to consider judiciously and to express profoundly a meditated conclusion

is unbounded They have no use for these lofty exercises which they look

upon as a sort of purelya respectable

occupation devised to kill tih somehow What women's acuteness really respects are the

inept "ideas" and the sheeplike impulses by which our actions and

opinions are determined in matters of real importance For if women are