Bosher, Kate Langley: The Man in Lonely Land. v1. 7 Mar 2015
 

Kate Langley Bosher (February 1, 1865 – July 27, 1932) was an American novelist from Virginia, best known for her novels Mary Cary (1910) and Miss Gibbie Gault (1911).

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Why didn’t he love his work as he used to? He had played fair, but to play fair was to play against the odds, and there were times when he hated the thing which made men fight as fiercely to-day as in the days of the jungle, though they no longer sprang at each other’s throats. On the whole, he preferred the cavemen’s method of attack. They at least fought face to face. As for women—