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A man who regularly lunches at the same tea shop does not notice the beauty of the waitress until his artist friend points it out to him. When his friend persuades him to attend a fancy dress ball, he meets and falls in love with a girl who says she is the waitress's sister, but there is a surprise in store for him.
More claims Charlotte Bronte was in love with her French professor, M. Constantin Heger, by whom she was taught when she attended a girls' school in Brussels. More believes Bronte's novel Villette is an autobiographical account of this infatuation.
(p. 10, 55)
Idealsi"His ideal girl for long he sought,",Emel,
single work poetry
(p. 14)
Deamer argues that the main fault with marriage is husbands. She looks ahead to a time when science makes it possible to have children without men, resulting in a state of Manless Matrimony, but ponders whether this is really what women want.