Towards the man whom she has ceased to love, the woman commonly acts a part.
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For a woman to humiliate one man in the presence of another is an offence which neither of the men is likely to forget. Nor will the one man have a less unpleasant recollection of it than the other.
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It is curious to listen to the explanations by one woman of the reasons of the attractiveness of another woman. Very apt is she to say that the other woman is too "free and easy", too liberal of her favors, too expansive of her sympathy, too exhibitive of her charms.—Ahem!
Women know women. And
Women know that women know men. And
Women know that men do not know women.—Ahem!—Men in this respect are somewhat different:
A man usually regards not ungenerously the qualities of his successful rival; a woman never. The former will candidly admit the possession of a more potent charm; the latter will trace it to the crudest of causes. In a word,
The unsuccessful man blames, not his rival, nor the women he loses, but himself.