XIX

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

George William Curtis.

A woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself so, even amidst an army of soldiers. Cervantes.

Clara: Go, if it is your duty to go. I know soldiers, and they will respect you and your errand. Stephen Barton (Her Father, an old soldier).

To a gentleman every woman is a lady, in right of her sex.

George Eliot.

Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily.

Gail Hamilton.

I gaze upon the men through blinding tears of admiration and respect, and sing in my heart “It is well to be a soldier.”

Clara Barton.