1 Down the side wall facing the window stood a row of kitchen chairs from which the older women had just risen.
2 When they returned to the kitchen the two women were already at breakfast.
3 THE QUERULOUS DRONE ceased as I entered Frome's kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker.
4 Their beauty she accepted as casually as the air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything but women's faces, horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
5 He had no knowledge of the dawn-till-midnight activities of these women, chained to supervision of cooking, nursing, sewing and laundering.
6 Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
7 These were traits of which Southern women were proud.
8 If she knew little about men's minds, she knew even less about the minds of women, for they interested her less.
9 To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.
10 All women with the one exception of her mother.
11 Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
12 Married women never had any fun.
13 Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
14 She could think of nothing to say and so merely looked at him, wondering why men were such fools as to think women interested in such matters.
15 It was not often that Mr. McRae had the opportunity to talk about war, the way his women folks shushed him.