It is of this, sir, that I complain." "You are just, and justly severe, Miss Munro; but what else have you to expect?
Amazon-like, your sex, according to the quaint old story, sought the combat, and were not unwilling to abide the conditions of the warfare.

The taunt is coupled with the triumph--the spoil follows the victory--and the captive is chained to the chariot-wheel of his conqueror, and must adorn the march of his superior by his own shame and sorrows.

But, to be just to myself, permit me to say, that what you have considered a reproach was in truth designed as a compliment.

I must regret that my modes of expression are so clumsy, that, in the utterance of my thought, the sentiment so changed its original shape as entirely to lose its identity.

It certainly deserved the graceful swordsmanship which foiled it so completely." "Nay, sir," said the animated girl, "you are bloodily-minded toward yourself, and it is matter of wonder to me how you survive your own rebuke.