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Updated: June 17, 2025
In later years she may be disinclined to accept truths second-hand, insist on thinking for herself, be earnest in her desire to shake off exploded traditions, be untiring in her efforts to live according to a high moral standard and to be strong, and pure, and good " "Like tea," explained Irais.
The Man of Wrath looked none too well pleased to be alluded to under his very nose by our new guest as "him." "Husbands are always sages," said I gravely. "Though sages are not always husbands," said Irais with equal gravity. "Sages and husbands sage and husbands " she went on musingly, "what does that remind you of, Miss Minora?"
"But, after all, babies are not a German speciality," said Irais, "and I don't quite see why you should bring them into a book of German travels. Elizabeth's babies have each got the fashionable number of arms and legs, and are exactly the same as English ones." "Oh, but they can't be just the same, you know," said Minora, looking worried.
Irais called out as we passed; "you'll be indeed a cold fowl if you stand there motionless, and every one prefers them hot in weather like this!"
"I can tell you what it is like; and if you went nobody would speak to you, and if you were to ask questions, and began to take notes, the good lady would stare at you in the frankest amazement, and think Elizabeth had brought a young lunatic out for an airing. Everybody is not as patient as Elizabeth," added Irais, anxious to pay off old scores.
Peter, however, behaved beautifully on the way home, and Irais and I at least were as happy as possible driving back, with all the glories of the western sky flashing at us every now and then at the end of a long avenue as we swiftly passed, and later on, when they had faded, myriads of stars in the narrow black strip of sky over our heads.
"My dear," I said breathlessly to Irais, when I had got into her room and shut the door and Minora was safely in hers, "what do you think she writes books!" "What the bicycling girl?" "Yes Minora imagine it!" We stood and looked at each other with awestruck faces. "How dreadful!" murmured Irais. "I never met a young girl who did that before." "She says this place is full of copy." "Full of what?"
Minora's eyes rolled doubtfully first at me then at Irais from the depths of her head-wrappings; they are large eyes with long dark eyelashes, and far be it from me to deny that each eye taken by itself is fine, but they are put in all wrong. "The only thing you would learn there," went on Irais, "would be the significance of sofa corners in Germany.
It is dark now nearly in the forest, and we shall have the loveliest moonlight drive back." "But it is surely very dangerous to let a man who goes to sleep drive you," said Minora apprehensively. "But he's such an old dear," I said. "Yes, yes, no doubt," she replied tastily; "but there are wakeful old dears to be had, and on a box they are preferable." Irais laughed.
Irais skates beautifully: modesty is the only obstacle to my saying the same of myself; but I may remark that all Germans skate well, for the simple reason that every year of their lives, for three or four months, they may do it as much as they like.
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