Arthur Stringer

“ The marked droop of the mouth corners, which gave the face its occasional aspect of grimness, might be taken as a conscious and deliberate assumption of the authoritative attitude, so kindly were the wide-set hazel eyes, so pensive their abstracted gaze.
“How's love?” asked Taussig, as he dropped into a wide-armed rattan chair. The associate professor of philosophy, Macraven remembered, always asked that question, and Macraven himself always winced at it. ”

“ And instead of living, he had been busy writing about life. Instead of climbing tower stairs with impressionable young women, after the manner of the redoubtable Waggles, he had struggled to make the name Amboro stand for something in the world of anthropology. ”

“ It's something that science itself has neglected, although Spencer acknowledges that perhaps, on the whole, this phenomenon of falling in love is the most interesting episode in the whole career of the ordinary man and woman. And if men decline to go into the matter, as you put it, how are we ever going to reach the truth about it?”
This question seemed to nonplus the discomfited Waggles. ”

“ The ridiculousness of such an appeal was too much for Macraven's overtaxed nerves.
“I've told Dodson, my man, to admit Miss Anne Appleby to these rooms on no consideration!” he cried.
“But she goes everywhere in Amboro! You can't quarrel with a woman who claims no less than thirteen blood and marriage relationships on the teaching staff alone. ”

“ From the purely scientific side, it had done little more, of course, than provide a new and startling viewpoint for the world of psychology. But it had marked its creator as a misogynist of uncompromising and self-confessed extremes. ”