WOMAN'S LOVE COMPARED WITH MAN'S.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3198, 28 September 1881, Page 4

WOMAN'S LOVE COMPARED WITH MAN'S.

There is nothing in the world so intensely selfish as a woman's intense affection ; and the stronger and more single hearted it is, the greater becomes its selfishness. A man's passion is generous when compared with a woman's love. A man's passion, at its worst, lasts but a short time ; even while it lasts, its demands are limited ; and what is more than this, a good man will restrain it. But the truer and more sensitive a woman is, the more thoroughly will she let her love master her « the less effort will she make to retain the least control of it. And what a roaster it is ! Its jealousy is cruel as the grave, and its demands know no limits but the imagination of her that makes them. A woman who loves thus is not content with elinste«t bo-lil v constancy; she is not content even with the constancy of an undivided tenderness. Those she takes for granted ; they are not the things she craves for. What she craves for is the constancy of your whole thought and intellect. You are to have nothing in your mind that you do no*confide to her, yon are to Stifle eveninterest with which she cannot he aasociat- . Tf you want any mental help, it is she alone who must help you ; and she had sooner you were helped ill by her than well by 'mother person. She will be as jealous of your friendships as she is of your affections, and as jealous of your thoughts and tastes as she is of your friendships. She cannot patiently conceive of you as in relation to anything excepting herself. She desires to absorb your whole life into hers -. an<s the larger part of it, -which she naturally cannot absorb, she desires to Bee perish. Her pleading, earnest eyes will be for ever saying to you. " Fntreat me not to leave thee. Where thou groest T will go ; and go not thou, my I.e. whither I cannot fol!o%v thee"—Mr Mallock's Romance of thr Nineteenth fpntn ..