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historical romance she had bought from Sammy
Smalter's pharmacy. She would take to bed with her
the latest of her Lotharios or Lovelaces or Rhett
Butlers. She would spend the night with this virile
bachelor, and in her dreams life would be passionate
and she would look like Norma Shearer.
chapter 33
When Benedick crowed, "I will live a bachelor," it
is assumed that the groundlings cheered, for it has long
been the whimsical fantasy of civilization that male
bachelorhood is a blessed state, nobly sacrificed, like
female virginity, to that necessary institution, the family.
A paradise lost, and regained only at court costs.
Not so, as Kate Ransom told Sidney Blossom. "Polls
have proved that the happiest people in America are
married men, and the most unhappy, married women."
This forecast was protested by the bachelor Blossom,
proposing yet once more in vain to Kate, who could not
yet agree, with Millimant, to "dwindle into a wife."
Among Dingley Falls's other bachelors, imminent
marriage loomed only for Arthur Abernathy, who had