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ment than man is. Her sympathies preclude her 

 from a due sense of justice ; but she is not alone 

 in the common human weakness of sympathy 

 for the criminal, if he is only bad enough, instead 

 of for the victims he has wronged. 



Let us, however, be thankful that she is as she 

 is, and try to make the best of ourselves and our 

 gardens. 



It is foolish of me to have allowed myself to 

 make any remarks about so complicated a subject 

 as woman ; but what is said is said and I propose 

 in this chronicle to record whatever comes into 

 my head, as I write, on any subject. 



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