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Nts, Carolina was the home of freedom where first the equal rights of
men were proclaimed. New England people worth less than one thousand
dollars were prohibited by law from wearing the garb of a gentleman,
gold or silver lace, buttons on the knees, or to walk in great boots, or
their women to wear silk or scarfs, while the Quakers, Maryland
Catholics, Baptists, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians were everywhere in
the South the heralds of man's equality before the law." "But barring
our ancestors, I have some things against the men of this generation."
"Have I, too, sinned and come short?" he asked with mock gravity. "Our
ideals of life are far apart," she firmly declared. "What ails my
ideal?" "Your egotism, for one thing. The air with which you calmly
select what pleases your fancy. Northern men are bad enough--the
insolence of a Southerner is beyond words!" [Illustration: LILLIAN GISH
AS ELSIE, AND THE SENTINEL.] "You don't say so!" cried Ben, bursting
into a hearty laugh. "Isn't your aunt, Mrs. Farnham, the president of a
club?" "Yes, and she is a very brilliant woman." "Enlighten me further."
"I deny your heaven-born male kingship. The lord of creation is after
all a very inferior animal--nearer the brute creation, weaker in
infancy, shorter lived, more imperfectly developed, given to fighting,
and addicted to idiocy. I never saw a female idiot in my life--did you?"
"Come to think of it, I never did," acknowledged Ben with comic gravity.
"What else?" "Isn't that enough?" "It's nothing. I agree with everything
you say, but it is irrelevant. I'm studying law, you know." "I have a
personality of my own. You and your kind assume the right to absorb all
lesser lights." "Certainly, I'm a man." "I don't care to be absorbed by
a mere man." "Don't wish to be protected, sheltered,