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It really seemed, at times, as if there were nothing for it but to fold one's hands and do exactly as one was bid. Algitha was beginning to wonder whether her own revolt was about to be expiated by a life-long remorse! "Ah, if mother had only not sacrificed herself for us, how infinitely grateful I should feel to her now! What sympathy there might have been between us all!
Algitha gave a startled exclamation, as the smoke thinned and revealed that bewildering glimpse of distant lands, half seen, as through the atmosphere of a dream. An exquisite city, with slender towers and temples, flashed, for a moment, through the mist curtain.
The nurse vanished. Algitha had handed the cup of brandy to Hadria. The sisters stood by the bedside, scarcely daring to breathe. Mr. Fullerton entered hurriedly, with face pallid and drawn. "What is it? Is she ?" "No, no; I hope not. Another moment it would have been too late, but I think we were in time." Hadria had administered the brandy, and stood watching breathlessly, for signs of revival.
Girls are protected from the realities of life so long as they remain at home, and that is worth something after all." Algitha snorted. "I don't know what you are pleased to call realities, my dear Ernest, but I can assure you there are plenty of unpleasant facts, in this protected life of ours." "Nobody can expect to escape unpleasant facts," said Ernest.
As she said, they were made of heart-strings. A vast spider's web seemed to spread its tender cordage round each household, for the crippling of every winged creature within its radius. Fragments of torn wings attested the struggles that had taken place among the treacherous gossamer. "And the maddening thing is," cried Algitha, "that there is nobody to swear at.
Algitha had now to provide for herself, as the allowance that her father had given her could not be continued. She had previously done her work for nothing, but now Mrs. Trevelyan, under whose care she had been living, offered her a paid post in a Convalescent Home in which she was interested. "I am exceptionally fortunate," said Algitha, "for Mrs.
"We ought to dwell upon the fowl and the magnificent prospect, and ignore the avenging rheumatism," said Claude Moreton. "Oh no, guard against it," advised Algitha, with characteristic common sense. "Sit on this waterproof, for instance." "Ah, there you have the true philosophy!" cried Professor Theobald. "Contentment and forethought. Observe the symbol of forethought."
"I have read and heard things that have almost taken my breath away! I feel as if I could kill every man who acquiesces in the present order of things. It is an insult to every woman alive!" In Hadria's room that night, Algitha finally decided to delay her going for another six months, hoping by that time that her mother would have grown used to the idea, and less opposed to it. Mr.
Wilfrid's personality, however, overcame every prejudice against him, on this account, after the first meeting. Joseph Fleming, among others, congratulated Algitha heartily on her engagement. "I can see you are very happy," he said naïvely. She laughed and coloured. "Indeed I ought to be. Life is gloriously worth living, when it is lived in the presence of good and generous souls."
After a pause, Algitha put a question: How far was it justifiable to give pain to others in following one's own idea of right and reasonable? How far might one attempt to live a life of intellectual integrity and of the widest mercy that one's nature would stretch to?
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