16 ACTIVE AND LESS IMPASSIONED WOMAN. 



Looking at extreme examples, and they are not ex- 

 ceedingly rare, two men surely deserve our sympathy : 

 one is he whose (passionless) wife proves to be a sex- 

 less, shallow shrew ; the other is the companion of a 

 (passionate) weak, false, and abandoned woman. Two 

 women no less demand compassion : she whose (pas- 

 sionless) husband is an empty bustling buffoon ; and 

 she who is mated to a (passionate) grovelling beast. 



