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'perhaps—such is masculine nature—a wife with more knowledge, more fixity of thought, and more general mental power than one's-self might be "a blessing in disguise." But one who is goose enough to sympathise at random on subjects of which she knows little or nothing, because it is "feminine" to do so, is a nuisance not in disguise. . . . For our own part, we would just as soon have the sympathy of a chameleon as that of a woman who lives completely in particulars, and is quite destitute of power to appreciate a universal principle.'
These are but a few samples, culled almost at random from the mass of contradictory evidence to be found in English literature. Conceive a governess or school-
