A Social Meteor — page 272: what you’re looking at

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262 - A SOCIAL METEOR. CHAPTER XVIII. “WHY WRITE SUCH A NOTE?” Man-like, seeing that his companion’s eyes were fixed upon him with tender sympathy, he hastened to unburden himself to her without reserve. I have always noticed this difference between men and women: that the latter, when they have been badly treated, will almost always seek to hide their wounds, especially from their inmates, while the former, who are naturally supposed to have so much better control of themselves, will, under the same circumstances, in nine cases out of ten, run to unbosom themselves to their “best friends,” even to the extent of becoming a bore. However, I will give this credit to the sterner sex, they seldom give a wrong coloring to their stories, and usually tell things as they really happen; while women But I am digressing. “What can be the matter with her?” he ex- claimed in a ringing tone; “what is the reason of this sudden change in her feelings toward me? To think of her kicking me off in this way, without a word of explanation! When I first got "Gomicbooks (E(0)