Perhaps, if he had put
it in the form of a jest I should even have liked it. As it was, I felt
like one stripped in public. Still, I recalled with pleasure that
Matilda had said similar things about my figure
"Why don't you learn to dance, Levinsky?" he repeated
I laughed, waving the suggestion aside as a joke
On another occasion he said, "Every woman can be won,
absolutely every one, provided a fellow knows how to go about
it."
As he proceeded to develop his theory he described various types
of women and the various methods to be used with them
"Of course, the man must not be repulsive to her," he said
That evening, when Mrs. Levinsky's husband, their three children,
and myself sat around the table and she was serving us our supper
she appeared in a new light to me. She was nearly twice my age
and I hated her not only for her meanness and low cunning, but
also for her massive, broad-shouldered figure and for her turkey
laugh, but she was a full-blooded, healthy female, after all. So, as
I looked at her bustling between the table and the stove, Max's
rule came back to me.
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