“The rascal,” said Manuel to his daughter when all was quiet, “to try and catch us in a trap like that.”
“Never mind him,” said Maria with a toss of her pretty head. “I fooled him once tonight and I’ll fool him again. I just promised Antonio that I’d marry him after the Festa do Espirito Santo.”
A CHANGE OF
OPINION
A CHANGE OF OPINION
I.
f course it happened at the club. Things of this kind always happen at a club, either because the members feel freer to discuss the weaker sex when they are not around, or because some men think a club the only place for such speeches.
John Harris made the remark, and Walter Andrews, the pet of half the ladies in the town, was its bitterest opposer.
“I do not believe it,” he said vehemently. “You can not make me believe it.”
“Nevertheless, my boy, I repeat; no one ever saw or heard of a really beautiful woman who was good. Mark you, I’m not saying anything against the merely ‘very pretty girl.’ I’ll admit that there are some very pretty women who, in addition to their loveliness, are really good. But these are merely pretty, not beautiful,” Harris replied.