Note 187 — FIFTEENTH JUBILEE.

This warmer, tenderer, more timid, ever-praised sex, living more in the opinion of others than in its own, is poisonously pierced by a reproach which only pricks us so as to draw a little blood, as noxious beasts, in warm countries and months, poison, and in cold ones only wound. Therefore let the girls' schoolmaster consider that a dose which is satire upon the boy—who, besides, must withstand opinion—becomes a lampoon, when it lights upon his sister.