This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... I could imagine the ladies by nature amorous, easily inflammable. They produce families, any-how, on the patriarchal scale--positive broods. President Roosevelt can make himself easy on the score of race suicide south of Panama.. The children are the most engaging little velvet-eyed beggars, too. I stayed in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... I could imagine the ladies by nature amorous, easily inflammable. They produce families, any-how, on the patriarchal scale--positive broods. President Roosevelt can make himself easy on the score of race suicide south of Panama.. The children are the most engaging little velvet-eyed beggars, too. I stayed in a country house near here last week--a big hacienda literally packed with them, of all ages and sizes from a babe a span long upwards; so I have seen Spanish American home life at close quarters. Indeed it has charm. At moments I felt downright envious of my host. The patriarchal stunt had me, in short; so that it struck me as a rather pointless proceeding to spend oneself in piling up money with no fruit of one's loins to inherit and make play with one's riches in the future.... It is a little hard on us, my dear Fan, is it not? I never quite make out how far you really mind; but, as I grow older, my regret does not lessen. To have no stake in the younger generation is bad for a man--inclines him to recklessness. One swings too loose. Honestly I feel it " Frances Copley read no further. She closed her eyes. Her face grew very white. She let her hands, and the letter they held, drop in her lap. Morris had never reproached her before; and this amounted to reproach, if indirect still scathing. It cut her to the quick. Her poor heart bled, seeming to empty itself drop by drop, until she grew faint with the drain of it. Perhaps she was illogical; still she did very certainly suffer. She might, often did, distrust her husband and disapprove his doings. She was not in love with him, it is true. Whether she ever had been so may be doubted. But she admired his cleverness, his gaily dazzling personality. Was pleased and touched--often against her...
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