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I felt that she was mixed up in Sir Runan's early life, and that we were mixed up in Sir Runan's early death in fact, that everything was very mixed indeed. She came back. 'Give me your name and college, she said, 'not necessarily for publication, and I divined that she had once been a proctor at Girton. I gave her my address at the public-house round the corner, and we parted, Mrs.
Hartington," she said one evening, when the two girls happened to be both out of the room when he arrived, "for laughing Anna out of some of the ideas she brought back from Girton.
The ideal has always helped man; but that belongs to the land of his dreams, his most important kingdom, the kingdom of his future. Delusions are earthly structures, that sooner or later fall about his ears, blinding him with dust and dirt. The petticoat-governed country has always paid dearly for its folly." "Elizabeth!" cried the Girton Girl. "Queen Victoria!"
It had been a gift from her father when she was at Girton. It never obtruded. Its voice was a faint musical chime that she need not hear unless she cared to listen. She turned and looked at it. It seemed to be a little face looking back at her out of its two round, blinkless eyes. For the first time during all the years that it had watched beside her, she heard its quick, impatient tick.
It's Miss Herminia Barton, the Dean of Dunwich's daughter." His father drew a long breath. The corners of the clear-cut mouth dropped down for a second, and the straight, thin eyebrows were momentarily elevated. But he gave no other overt sign of dismay or astonishment. "That makes a great difference, of course," he answered, after a long pause. "She IS a lady, I admit. And she's been to Girton."
Are we so sure that Art does elevate?" "You are talking for the sake of talking," told him the Girton Girl. "One can talk for the sake of thinking also," reminded her the Minor Poet. "The argument is one that has to be faced.
It went so far that one day he expressed a distinct desire to leave her for a week and go a-fishing with some other men. She never complained at least, not to him." "That is where she was foolish," said the Girton Girl. "Silence in such cases is a mistake. The other party does not know what is the matter with you, and you yourself your temper bottled up within become more disagreeable every day."
There are times even now when her tone suggests less certainty of her being the first person who has ever thought seriously about the matter. "I suppose," said the Girton Girl, "it comes of education. Our grandmothers were content to fill their lives with these small household duties. They rose early, worked with their servants, saw to everything with their own eyes.
You see, if we women are ever to be free in the world, we must have in the end a freeman's education. But the education at Girton made only a pretence at freedom. At heart, our girls were as enslaved to conventions as any girls elsewhere. The whole object of the training was to see just how far you could manage to push a woman's education without the faintest danger of her emancipation."
She meant to go to Girton when she left school, but her father lost all his money, and she had to begin to teach at once, so that she could help a younger brother. She's paying for his education herself, and he's doing splendidly at his school, and she's so proud of him, and hopes he may win a scholarship. If I'd only known all this, I wouldn't have made it so hard for her.
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