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broke in the widow . `` Nor to look twice at your pretty stenographer , '' continued the bachelor . `` Nor to lie about your age , or your foot or your waist measure . '' `` Nor to juggle with the truth whenever you stay out after half past ten . '' `` Nor to listen to things that -- that anybody -- except your husband -- may say to you in the conservatory -- oh , I see how it feels ! '' finished the widow with a sympathetic little shudder . `` And yet , '' reflected the bachelor , `` a woman is always exacting vows and promises from the man she loves , always putting up bars -- for him to jump over ; when if she would only leave him alone he would be perfectly contented to stay within bounds and graze in his own pasture .