The strike of a sex

I was greatly fatigued, and a feeling of irresistible drowsiness had begun to creep over my senses, when my flagging energies were suddenly aroused by the appearance of a town w...

It was a fine-looking man that I had thus unceremoniously grasped by the arm, albeit he seemed to be plunged into the same deep dejection that I had observed in all his fellows....

I turned eagerly toward Mr. Justin Lister, as soon as our companion had left us. He was about my age, and there was a certain sympathetic friendliness in the glance of his frank...

Although the house to which Mr. Justin Lister now introduced me was more orderly than many which I had observed on the streets through which I had passed, the absence of woman f...

When I awoke the next morning my mind was clear, and though the recollection of the fact that woman had forsaken man came back to me like the memory of a deeply painful blow, I...

“Are you prepared to enjoy the sight of a woman’s face?” was Mr. Lister’s first salutation to me as he entered the parlour where I was sitting soon after noon. The copy of _The...

I did not fully understand the meaning of Mr. Lister’s words. “In what respect,” I said, “does woman want the ownership of her own person? Does she not have it already?”

I had known the terror that seizes upon the heart at the sudden alarm of devastating fires before. I had been awakened by such alarms from a peaceful sleep at midnight. I had fe...

My absorption had been so deep in gazing at the beautiful portrait that I had not observed that Mr. Lister had come up the stairs and was standing silently behind me.

“It did not seem long to us. We had both discovered from much observation of our married friends that courtship was the true elysium in every one’s life, and a far happier state...

It was noon when I awoke from the deep stupor rather than sleep into which I had plunged. How swiftly, when one is waked out of sleep, comes back the engrossing joy or grief whi...

The street through which the women were to pass was, we found when we reached it, already thickly lined with men, many of whom bore marks of their fearful struggle with fire of...

I did not remain unconscious long. When I revived, I was lying on some wraps which were spread upon the ground near where I had stood, and gentle hands were bathing my forehead....

As I entered the Auditorium, and hastened to a seat beside Mr. Lister, I saw that the vast floor was filled with men and women, but that they were separated by a wide space. A w...