My profession and my reading have both taught me that the whole character of her sex undergoes a change the moment a man interferes with their dress.

From Chaucer's day to our own, neither public satire nor private remonstrance has ever shaken any of their monstrous fashions.

Easy, obliging, pliable, and weaker of will than men in other things, do but touch their dress, however objectionable, and rock is not harder, iron is not more stubborn, than these soft and yielding creatures.

It is no earthly use my coming--I'll come." He came that very evening, and saw directly she was worse.

"Of course," said he, sadly, "you have not taken my advice." Rosa replied with a toss and an evasion, "I was not worth a prescription!" "A physician can prescribe without sending his patient to the druggist; and when he does, then it is his words are gold." Rosa shook her head with an air of lofty incredulity.
He looked ruefully at Mr.Lusignan and was silent.