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Besides, nice soft little thing that Phoebe was, she talked with a dialect as thick as treacle. Eventually, however, it turned out that girls were to be Ishmael's chief companions, and the Parson concluded it would do him no harm to be under what is commonly supposed to be a softening influence before plunging into the stern masculinities of St. Renny.
But there were frivolities in the education of women then which were almost as conspicuous as are the masculinities that have since taken their place. In Barbara's case neither of these influences was felt.