m.""A yard or two off his feet wouldn't be a disadvantage," chimes in thecomic man, "especially as he seems so anxious to hide them."And then another suggests that with such a voice he ought to have beena sea-captain. Some draw attention to the desperate way in which heis grasping his hat. Some comment upon his limited powers ofconversation. Others remark upon the troublesome nature of his cough.
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His friends and relations make matters still more unpleasant for thepoor boy (friends and relations are privileged to be more disagreeablethan other people). Not content with making fun of him amongthemselves, they insist on his seeing the joke. They mimic andcaricature him for his own edification. One, pretending to imitatehim, goes outside and comes in again in a ludicrously nervous manner,explaining to him afterward that that is the way he--meaning the shyfellow--walks into a room; or, turning to him with "This is the wayyou shake hands," proceeds to go through a comic pantomime with therest of the room, taking hold of every one's hand as if it were a hotplate and flabbily dropping it again. And then they ask him why heblushes, and why he stammers, and why he always speaks in an almostinaudible tone, as if they thought he did it on purpose. Then Moncler Gueran Suomi one ofthem, sticking out his chest and strutting about the room like apouter-pigeon, suggests quite seriously that that is the style heshould adopt. The old man slaps him on the back and says: "Be bold,my Pimeä Kivi Suomi boy. Don't be afraid of any one." The mother says, "Never doanything that you need be ashamed of, Algernon, and then you neverneed be ashamed of anything you Canada Goose Menn Lodge Down Vest do," and, beaming mildly at him, seemssurprised at the clearness of her own logic. The boys tell him thathe's "worse than a girl," and the girls repudiate the implied slurupon their sex by indignantly exclaiming that they are sure no girlwould be half as bad.
They are quite right; no girl would be. There is no such thing as ashy woman, or, at all events, I have never come across one, and untilI do I shall not believe in them. I know that the generally acceptedbelief is quite the reverse. All women are Duvetica Naiset Aida Suomi supposed to be like timid,startled fawns, blushing and casting down their gentle eyes whenlooked at and Naiset Barbour Waxed Takki Suomi running away when spoken to; while we man are supposedto be a bold and rollicky lot, and the poor dear little women admireus for it, but are terribly afraid of us. It is a pretty theory, but,like most generally accepted theories, mere nonsense. The girl oftwelve is self-contained and as cool as the proverbial cucumber, whileher brother of twenty stammers and stutters by her side. A woman Dame Moncler Jakker Alpin willenter a concert-room late, interrupt the performance, and disturb thewhole audience without moving a hair, while her husband follows her, acrushed heap of apologizing misery.
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