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The Daredevil

The Daredevil

Daviess, Maria Thompson
1stworld Library

Hardcover

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1421803720
ISBN13: 9781421803722
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Feb 8 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Was there ever a woman who did not very greatly desire for herself, at long moments, the doublet and hose of a man, perhaps also his sword, as well as his attitude in the viewing of life? I think not. To a very small number of those ladies of great curiosity it has been granted that they climb to those ramparts of the life of a man; but it was needful that they be stout of limb and sturdy of heart to sustain themselves upon that eminence and not be dashed below upon the rocks of a strange land. I, Roberta, Marquise de Grez and Bye, have obtained glimpses into a far country and this is what I bring on returning, not as a spy, but, shall I say, laden with spices and forbidden fruit? And for me it has been a very fine dash into the wilds of a land of strangeness, and I do not know that I have yet found myself completely returned unto my estate of a woman

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