Leonard Merrick

Name: The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories — The Man Who Understood Women
Author: Leonard Merrick

The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

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“The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories — The Man Who Understood Women”, published in 1919, is a work by Leonard Merrick. It explores elements such as Wendover, Beckenhampton and Rhoda Searle.

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ The suitor of quick perceptions has been made by other women, as everybody but the least sophisticated of débutantes knows.
But if he did not dream that he might trouble the peace of Miss Searle, he was perpetually conscious that Miss Searle had disturbed his own. A month's daily companionship with a temperament, plus a fascinating face, would be dangerous to any man—to Wendover it was fatal. His thoughts turned no longer to liaisons with duchesses; his work, itself, was secondary to Rhoda Searle. ”

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ I was very fond of my father, but I can't tell you how terrible those visits became to me, how I had to suppress myself, and how the drab women and stupid young men used to stare at me—as if I were a strange animal, or something improper; in places like Beckenhampton they say 'Paris' in the same kind of voice that they say 'Hell.' I suppose I'm a bohemian by instinct, for even now that I know I should never make an artist, my horror isn't so much the loss of my hopes as the loss of my freedom, my—my identity; I am never to be natural any more. ”

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ It was a sickening admission for an authority on women to have to make, but when he tried to flirt he felt shy.
At last he decided that all the women whom he knew were too frivolous to appeal to a man of intellect, and that their company wearied him unutterably.
But, though he had reached middle-age, he had never as yet been really in love.
In the autumn of his forty-second year—few people judged him to be so much—he removed to Paris. Some months afterwards, in the interests of a novel that he had begun, he deserted his hotel in the rue d'Antin for a pension de famille on the left bank. ”

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ If the Beckenhampton parents don't regard me as too immoral, it is just possible she may employ me in the school to 'teach drawing'—unless I try to teach it. Then I suppose I shall be called a 'revolutionary' and be dismissed." She contemplated the shabby little salon thoughtfully, and lit another cigarette. "From the Boul' Mich' to a boarding school! It'll be a change. I wonder if it will be safe to smoke there if I keep my bedroom window open wide?"
Yes, it would be as great a change as was conceivable, and Rhoda Searle was the most interesting figure in the house to Wendover. ”

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ To do him justice, he didn't see it—he had confided the story of his marriage to her, and it did not enter into his thoughts that she might care for him seriously notwithstanding; his experiences had given him no cause to esteem himself dangerous, and the lover who has never received favours is, in practice, always modest, though in aspirations he may be Juanesque. ”

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ Together they made little excursions, and pretended to scribble or sketch in the woods—looking at each other, however, most of the time; and then at evening there was an inn to be sought, and the moon would rise sooner than the "friends"; and in the moonlight, when they returned to Paris and the pension de famille, sentiment would constrain their tones.
It was all quite innocent, but to the last degree unwise. The ex-shop assistant still throve decorously at Crouch End on his allowance, and Wendover should have seen that he was acting unfairly towards Miss Searle. ”

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Leonard Merrick, The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories… (1919)

“ THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN
"Our bitterest remorse is not for our sins, but for our stupidities."—Excerpt from Wendover's new novel.
Nothing had delighted Wendover so much when his first book appeared as some reviewer's reference to "the author's knowledge of women." He was then six or seven and twenty, and the compliment uplifted him the more because he had long regretted violently that he knew even less of women than do most young men. The thought of women fascinated him. ”

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