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Then after my try-world had tried, and got well started and the people in it had finished off some things and knew what they wanted, I would allow the humdrums and the respectabilities to be let in to do what they were told. Doing what they are told is what they like. So they would be happy. Of course doing what they are told is what is the matter with them.
"I try to forget it as much as possible," and Maryllia's eyes were full of a sweet wistfulness as she spoke "Especially here in my father's home!" "Oh well!" said Lady Beaulyon, with a touch of impatience "You are a strange girl you always were! You can 'live good, or try to, if you like; and stay down here all alone with the doldrums and the humdrums. But you'll be sick of it in six months.
"We shall have parties and pleasures then, like other people, and, instead of masters and tedious old church humdrums, Mr. Lodore and the like, you shall see beaux and belles dashing up to this out-of-the-way place; and I will make papa build a ballroom, and we shall have a band and supper once a month. You know he can afford any thing he likes of that sort, and as for me "
When he told me that she was now called Ydgrun, he said, "I am sure that the Erinyes were only Mrs. Humdrums, and that they were delightful people when you came to know them. I do not believe they did the awful things we say they did.
You know when one is very thirsty one drinks and drinks, but the thirst remains all the same. There are places where one can see life as it is called, but the only persons you will see enjoying themselves at such places are a few humdrums like myself, who go there for a talk over a cup of coffee. Perhaps at your age, though, it is different."
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