"Why don't he come in?" questioned Abe, waving back a greeting as well as he could with the treasured cup in one of his hands and the saucer in the other; whereupon Sarah Jane, that ugly duckling, explained that the fellow, being a confirmed woman-hater, cooked all his own meals in the smokehouse, and insisted upon all his orders being left on a slate outside the tool-house door.

"My dear sir," he said, "but you're a woman-hater!"

Why, his grandfather was an inveterate woman-hater, as all the world knows.

So in the "Woman-hater," by Beaumont and Fletcher, act i. sc. 3, Count Valore, describing Lazarillo, says "He is none of these Same Ordinary Eaters, that'll devour Three breakfasts, as many dinners, and without any Prejudice to their Beavers, drinkings, suppers; But he hath a more courtly kind of hunger.

* 49 The Woman-Hater.

Me nihil unquam mali nobilissimo sexui, vel verbo, vel facto machinaturum, &c., let Simonides, Mantuan, Platina, Pet. Aretine, and such women-haters bare the blame, if aught be said amiss; I have not writ a tenth of that which might be urged out of them and others; non possunt invectivae omnes, et satirae in foeminas scriptae, uno volumine comprehendi.

Like his contemporary, Händel, he attempted management, and like Händel went into a magnificent bankruptcy, but quite unlike the woman-hater Händel, he married his way out of poverty.

He tolerated a little cub as a cross-grained old woman-hater might have tolerated a pink baby; but he wasn't as cruel as Punch, for he had never killed a cub.

I was sixteen, remember, and this wonderful Adonis and woman-hater had chosen me, me!and left all the other girls desolate and sighing, looking after us with longing eyes.

In a large way he was a humouristfew guessing it, and he fully appreciated the humour of the present situationthat he, John Aldous, touted the world over as a woman-hater, wanted to peer out through the poplar foliage and see that wonderful gold-brown head shining in the sun once more!

Are you a woman-hater, that you would fain have frightened the noble-minded woman, and the sweet girl, who are beneath our feet at this minute, from enjoying the high privilege of your company?" "Was it treacherous, to wish to save a woman from a fate like that, for instance, which hung over them both this very day?

And now, finally, in the procession that has filed past you, you have seen almost every imaginable form of love and lover, of husband and Lothario, or woman-hater.

FABRIT'IO, a merry soldier, the friend of Captain Jac'omo the woman-hater.

I scarce ever knew a Woman-hater that did not, sooner or later, pay for it.

Still I was very humble and careful to win the favor of "the King's Chamberlain"those potencies, the nurses, who might report me to that Royal woman-hater, Dr. Baxter, surgeon in charge, whose name was a terror to women who intruded themselves into military hospitals.

At twenty-three he turned woman-hater, just as Mrs. Stanley at forty-five had turned man-hater, and perhaps for much the same sort of reason.