Many a woman has given her heart to one lover and herself to another.
The first is always won; the second is sometimes extorted. Yet,
It is wonderful how a woman will contrive to make all her lovers believe they are winners.
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It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang.
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Not many but have tasted the bitterness of the conflict between the desire of the flesh and the resentment of the spirit. Explain these terms who may.
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To attempt by erring to cure an erring lover, is to administer, not an antidote, but an adjuvant. It works poison in the blood. When (and if) in a tortuous love, a man arrives at a 'Don't give a damn' stage, he is not to be classed with the animals known as docile. And as to a woman. . . . . . . but polite language has its limits.
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Many a man has be exasperated, not only by the audacity of his rival, but by the equanimity with which his lady-love views that audacity. He forgets that, as a rule,