"Come," said Rosa; "now I forgive him sneering at me; his heart is not really hard, you see." Staines, on the contrary, was very angry.

"What!" he cried, "pity a boy who made one bad bargain, that, after all, was not a very bad bargain; and he had no kindness, nor even common humanity, for my beautiful Rosa, inexperienced as a child, and buying for her husband, like a good, affectionate, honest creature, amongst a lot of sharpers and hard-hearted cynics--like himself." "It WAS cruel of him," said Rosa, altering her mind in a moment, and half inclined to cry.
This made Christopher furious.

"The ill-natured, crotchety, old--the fact is, he is a misogynist." "Oh, the wretch!" said Rosa warmly.

"And what is that ?" "A woman-hater." "Oh! is that all?
Why, so do I--after that Florence Cole.

Women are mean, heartless things.