The woman took it for granted that the man would not get up,
and yet she did not despise him. She did not have judgment enough to do
it.
VANITY AND SELFISHNESS.
4. A man's vanity and selfishness are present (to a woman's perception)
in every movement. She likes them. They are the characteristics of
masculinity.
5. The man entered matrimony with all the trepidation born out of
thinking too much about it. It seemed to him like buying a
fifteen-thousand-dollar horse on instalments. This is just as it seems
to Mr. Bachelor, too. It was a pretty good price, but it was a
high-stepper, a flyer, a beauty. It would take him all his life to pay
for it, and it might founder the first year. But he had never in his
life wanted anything the way he wanted that woman. Mr. Bachelor has not
yet got to that stage.
RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL.
6. There is little doubt that, speaking of man as an animal, unchastened
by the benign influence of religion, "the male hates the sick female."
The female knows that. Yet in return she exhibits toward the sick male a
tenderness that makes his hair stand on end when he thinks of his own
short-comings.
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