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Whyte-Melville, George: Kate Coventry. v1. 30 Jan 2015

George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878)[1] was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet.

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To be sure, we women are sadly kept down in this world, whatever we shall be in the next. If they would only let us try, I think we could beat the “lords of the creation,” as they call themselves, at everything they undertake. Dear me, they talk about our weakness and vanity—why, they never know their own minds for two minutes together; and as for vanity, only tell a man you think him good-looking, and he falls in love with you directly; or if that is too great a bounce—and indeed very few of them have the slightest pretensions to beauty—you need only hint that he rides gallantly, or waltzes nicely, or wears neat boots, and it will do quite as well. I recollect perfectly that Cousin Emily made her great marriage—five thousand a year and the chance of a baronetcy—by telling her partner in a quadrille, quite innocently, that “she should know his figure anywhere.” The man had a hump, and one leg shorter than the other; but he thought Emily was dying for him, and proposed within a fortnight. Emily is an artless creature—“good, common-sense,” Aunt Deborah calls it—and so she threw over Harry Bloomfield and married the hump and the legs that didn’t match and the chance of the baronetcy forthwith; and now they say he beats her, and I think it serves her right.
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