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The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER IX
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She has told me all about it.

But that need not hinder you to tell me." Poor Gerard was overjoyed to be permitted to praise Margaret aloud, and to one who could understand what he loved in her.
Soon there were two pair of wet eyes over his story; and when the poor boy saw that, there were three.
Women are creatures brimful of courage.

Theirs is not exactly the same quality as manly courage; that would never do, hang it all; we should have to give up trampling on them.

No; it is a vicarious courage.

They never take part in a bull-fight by any chance; but it is remarked that they sit at one unshaken by those tremors and apprehensions for the combatants to which the male spectator--feeble-minded wretch!--is subject.


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