Sentence:  I remember when you were a boy you wished to make your fine new whip a present to old aunt Peggy, merely because she admired it; and now, with like unreflecting and unappropriate liberality, you would resign your beloved to a smoke-dried young <WSD>sophister</WSD>, who cares not one of the hairs which it is his occupation to split for all the daughters of Eve. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A sophist.