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When a woman fancies herself slighted by the man she loves, the first person who proposes must be a clumsy wooer indeed, if he does not carry her away. So reasoned Ferrers, but yet he was ruffled and disquieted; the truth must be spoken,--able, bold, sanguine, and scornful as he was, his spirit quailed before that of Maltravers; he feared the lion of that nature when fairly aroused: his own character had in it something of a woman's--an unprincipled, gifted, aspiring, and subtle woman's,--and in Maltravers--stern, simple, and masculine--he recognised the superior dignity of the