Who could help laughing at his ideas about women! But if they were crude, they were shrewd--or so she thought them; and the jejuneness was, to her mind, chiefly in the dressing of them.

Grace agreed with her, for Grace had as good a right to inspect the papers as she, and a glance had shown that there was nothing of peculiar personal import in his notes: he did not brood on himself.
Here was one which tickled the ladies and formed a text for discussion.
'Women must take the fate of market-fruit till they earn their own pennies, and then they 'll regulate the market.

It is a tussle for money with them as with us, meaning power.

They'd do it as little by oratory as they have done by millinery, for their oratory, just like their millinery, appeals to a sentiment, and to a weaker; and nothing solid comes of a sentiment.

Power is built on work.' To this was appended: 'The better for mankind in the developing process, ay, and a bad day for us, boys, when study masks the charming eyes in gig-lamps, and there is no pretty flying before us.