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mise him and sweep him oif his feet. But when 

 it came to women folks — ^the best of them — ^the 

 Mantuan saw to it that they were quick to put 

 presumption in its place. A glance, swift and 

 sure as the arrow of chaste Artemis, was the 

 weapon they employed. 



It is, I confess it frankly, an envy complex 

 that makes me remember from the whole MrmA 

 that sole line. jEneas awakened in me no filial 

 piety. Achates no fidehty, Hector no valorous 

 zest for the imequal combat. Ulysses taught no 

 trippings to my tongue. But when I came to 

 Dido, I was "thrilled" by her deconmi. "There," 

 said I, seizing on a model for my conduct, "that 

 is the kind of woman I shall be." I was fifteen 

 at the time and I forgot that my two stubby pig- 

 tails must first be turned up and under to a crown 

 of hair; that my red flannel shirt-waist and plaid 

 skirt must be transformed to less serviceable and 

 more alluring raiment ; that my chubbiness must 

 first pass through the state of figure before it 

 could attain to noble form. Exhilarated I looked 

 forward to the time when I might emulate the 

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