[272] The Egoist, 21.
[273] Lord Ormont and his Aminta, 182.
[274] Diana of the Crossways, 158.
[275] The Egoist, 163. Cf. Simeon Strunsky’s essay on The Eternal Feminine, in The Patient Observer; a humorous sermon which might have been developed from this logical text.
[276] Yeast, 110. Elsewhere in the volume the author expounds his feministic philosophy: “She tried, as women will, to answer him with arguments, and failed, as women will fail.” 29. “Woman will have guidance. It is her delight and glory to be led.” 177.
[277] The Adventures of Philip, II, 42.
[278] Ibid., I, 237. Thackeray’s patronizing smugness and antique attitude towards women come out with a beautiful unconsciousness in a letter to one of them, and that one a prime favorite with him, Mrs. Brookfield: “I am afraid I don’t respect your sex enough, though. Yes I do, when they are occupied with loving and sentiment rather than with other business of life.” His fair correspondent could not retort that he would have found a congenial soul in Meredith’s Lady Wathin, who “both dreaded and detested brains in women, believing them to be devilish;” but she might have reminded him of the twinkling chivalry of Christopher North, who confessed, “To my aged eyes a neat ankle is set off attractively by a slight shade of cerulian.”
[279] Pelham, 291.
[280] Pelham, 73.
[281] Kenelm Chillingly, 42.