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Updated: June 12, 2025
How skilful you had to be to rouse the interest you needed and escape the many interests you did not need, to awaken the single gift without bringing upon you all the rest, to suffer the fool wisely, that is, to the extent of his tiny wisdom, and no more. To encourage say Miss Annie Smith in her district-visiting what a talent she has for that! but firmly to forget her at concerts; to welcome Mr.
Nothing less peculiarly appropriate to a young girl of seventeen than some of his sermons could be imagined and yet they were all addressed to Enid Vane. It was as if he were trying to strengthen her for some dread conflict, some warfare of life and death, which his foreseeing eye discerned for her in days to come. Enid was allowed to do a little district-visiting in the parish, and Mr.
Dolman's district-visiting hat was made in the shape of a very large mushroom. It was simply adorned with a band of brown ribbon, and was not either a becoming or fashionable headgear. Diana, who had a strong sense of the ludicrous, stopped her tears where her aunt appeared. "What a poky old thing you is!" she said. These words enraged Mrs. Dolman.
So they get it into their heads that they're called upon to reform the world a nice handy little job, that'll keep them going. The girls, I notice, are beginning to have the same craze. I shouldn't wonder if Paula gets an idea that she'll be a hospital-nurse, or go district-visiting in Bethnal Green. 'I certainly should if I thought it would amuse me, said Paula. 'But why shouldn't Mr.
One morning in early September, Miss Shippen, the trained nurse at the Settlement School on Perilous, set off for a day of district-visiting over on Clinch, accompanied by Miss Loring, another of the workers.
It was all pretty bewildering to him, too, this great and splendid establishment, the glorious church by Bodley, with the Magnificat in Gothic lettering below the roof, the well-built and furnished clergy-house, the ladies' house, the zeal, the self-devotion, the parochial machinery, the Band of Hope, the men's and boys' clubs, and, above all, the furious district-visiting.
That good lady sometimes indulged in a species of persecution she termed district-visiting, which usually consisted in her thrusting herself at untoward times into poor people's houses and asking them questions about their private affairs.
Above all inexplicable was the passion displayed for district-visiting that strange impulse that drove four highly-cultivated young men in black frock-coats and high hats and ridiculous little collars during five afternoons in the week to knock at door after door all over the district and conduct well-mannered conversations with bored but polite mothers of families.
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