text:  You are after a fashion informed with what studious persevering and unmerciful violation of all gentle decorum and feminine pity the lovely marble-souled tyranness has in the course of the last three or four years turned back from her beetle-browed castle-gate one by one as they showed themselves there--a hundred all worthily born--otherwise more and less meritorious--petitioners for that whip-and-javelin-bearing hand