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"Not she," said Bobus, in his teasing voice. "She'll be governessed up and kept to lessons all day." "Mother always teaches us," said Babie. "She'll have no time, she'll be a great lady, and you'll have three governesses- one for French, and one for German, and one for deportment, to make you turn out your toes, and hold up your head, and never sit on the rug." "Never mind, Babie," said Jock.
We are born of woman, we are swaddled and nursed by woman, we are governessed by woman; subsequently, we are beguiled by woman, fooled by woman, led on, put off, tantalised by woman, fretted and bullied by her; finally, last scene of all, we are wrapped in our cerements by woman. Man's life, birth, death, turn upon woman, as upon a hinge.
'I cannot make out what her pursuits are, said Lily; 'Rotherwood never talks of her reading anything. 'She has been governessed and crammed till she is half sick of all reading, said Claude, 'of all study ay, and all accomplishments. 'So that is the friend you recommend, Lily! said William. 'Well, Claude, that is what I call a great shame, said Emily.
But there isn't much left of the way God made a girl, by the time she's been curled and dressed and governessed for years, is there? They can't even walk, but they talk about helping in the War. It makes me sick!" I now saw that I had made a mistake, and began reading a Magazine, so he went back to his seat and we were as strangers again.
We came more or less to see that our young contemporaries of another world, the trained and admonished, the disciplined and governessed, or in a word the formed, relatively speaking, had been made aware of many things of which those at home hadn't been; yet we were also to note so far as we may be conceived as so precociously "noting," though we were certainly incorrigible observers that, the awareness in question remaining at the best imperfect, our little friends as distinguished from our companions of the cousinship, greater and less, advanced and presumed but to flounder and recede, elated at once and abashed and on the whole but feebly sophisticated.
It's awful to have a resident teacher in the house, and be an only pupil; you feel governessed out of your life. And now I have no friends to visit, or to visit me, only the Norton girls, for whom I don't care. It seems ungrateful when I have so much to be thankful for, but I feel pent! Sometimes I get such a wicked feeling that I just long to snap and snarl at everybody.
It made Mother furious, because it is so old-fashioned to say "ma'am." Our old nurse taught me to say it when I was small, and though it has been pretty well governessed out of me since then, it's sure to pop up when I get confused and nervous. Sue ... may it be accounted unto her for righteousness ... contrived that I should go out to dinner with old Mr.
In the after-time, as our view took in, with new climes and new scenes, other examples of the class, these were always to affect us as more formed and finished, more tutored and governessed, warned and armed at more points for, and doubtless often against, the social relation; so that this prepared state on their part, and which at first appeared but a preparation for shyness or silence or whatever other ideal of the unconversable, came to be for us the normal, since it was the relative and not the positive, still less the superlative, state.
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