Feminine complaisance varies directly as masculine audacity. And yet, often enough, as a simple matter of fact, 118 Masculine diffidence is vastly more potent than masculine audacity. And further,
Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since
Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since
The true woman may give her fingertips to the gallant; she gives herself to the worshiper. The pity o' it is that
The worshiper cannot away with the complaisance that permits a woman to give even her finger-tips to the gallant. And
Few are the women who have plumbed the silent and sensitive depths of the diffidence of her devotee. The worst of it is,
The devotee essays two things: he would apotheosize the object of his adoration and place her as a constellation among the stars; yet he would have her at the same time terrestrial and tangible. When the woman shows herself terrestrial and tangible to others than he, the faith of the devotee is shaken. In fine,
Every lover attempts that impossible task: the realization of the heavenly ideal. Perhaps
It is in aphelion that the corona appears most splendid;
Were perihelion to result is coalescence, perhaps the photosphere would be proved composed of terrestrial vapors. And if it did (as no doubt it would), would it be at all bedimmed? For, to the devout astrologer