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And to begin with at least, novels were written for the
reading of heroines. Miss Lydia Languish sets no great store upon
the contents of a man's head. That is just the stuffing of the
doll. Eyes and heart are her game. And so there is never any more
sphinx in the story than a lady may impersonate. And as inevitably
the heroine meets a man. In his own first success, White reflected,
the hero, before he had gone a dozen pages, met a very pleasant
young woman very pleasantly in a sunlit thicket; the second opened
at once with a bicycle accident that brought two young people
together so that they were never afterwards disentangled; the third,
failing to produce its heroine in thirty pages, had to be
rearranged. The next--
White returned from an unprofitable digression to the matter before
him.

14

The first of Benham's early essays was written in an almost boyish
hand, it was youthfully amateurish in its nervous disposition to
definitions and distinctions, and in the elaborate linking of part
to part. It was called TRUE DEMOCRACY.


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