What! still retaining your Utopian visions of female felicity? To talk of our happiness! — ours, the ill-used and oppressed! You remind me of the ancient tyrant, who, seeing his slaves sink under the weight of their chains, said 'Do look at the indolent repose of those people!'
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As an example of prejudicial absurdity, Miss Landon has a man say, on the same page | That preference of white sauce to brown is a singular proof of female inferiority.