A lion among men

[snowyday]

She was pretty and ambitious and had studied the matrimonial problem to a nicety.

“Yes. I suppose, I shall wed eventually.†She said, “but the only kind of masculine

nuisance that will suit me must be tall and dark, with classical features.

He must be brave, yet gentle.

He must be strong—a lion among men, but a knight among women.

That evening a bow-legged, lath-framed chinless youth, wearing flannel baggies and

smoking a cigarette that smelt worse than a burning boot, rattled on the back door

and the girl knocked four tumblers and a cut glass dish off the sideboard in her haste

to let him in.

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snowyday