[…] in several instances there was another and quite a different red in the gown, which “swore” at its relative on the parasol.

I was too smart for my own good. I was able to rationalize and out argue anyone who told me I had a problem.

Maybe they're still studs and Lotharios, even at that age, long after the females have lost their slut status and moved on to cougarhood.

Dr. Leyden entertained an opinion that the Battas of Sumatra were the Ichthyophagi of Herodotus; but I agree with Mr. Anderson in thinking this supposition fallacious, as the Battas do not inhabit the coasts, but are always found in the interior; rarely venturing down to the shore, and indulge, as we have seen, an appetite of a very different kind from any that could be designated simply ichthyphagous.