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Now, being steadfastly determined that my boyhood shall be less tedious in the telling than it was in the living for I always longed to be a man, and hated my green and petticoat-governed days I will pass forthwith to the hour when I reached the age of eighteen years. My dear father was then in Heaven, and old Betty had found, as was believed, another billet.
If we wish to estimate the art of du Maurier at its full worth we must try and imagine Punch from 1863 without this art, and try for a moment to conceive the difference this absence would make to our own present knowledge of the Victorians; also to the picture always entertained of England abroad. If we are to believe du Maurier's art England is a petticoat-governed country.
‘Certainly not,’ replied Tibbs; still without evincing an atom of surprise. ‘You will not?’ ‘Decidedly not,’ reiterated Tibbs, still as calm as a pot of porter with the head off. Mr. Calton seized the hand of the petticoat-governed little man, and vowed eternal friendship from that hour. Hicks, who was all admiration and surprise, did the same. ‘Now, confess,’ asked Mr.
The ideal has always helped man; but that belongs to the land of his dreams, his most important kingdom, the kingdom of his future. Delusions are earthly structures, that sooner or later fall about his ears, blinding him with dust and dirt. The petticoat-governed country has always paid dearly for its folly." "Elizabeth!" cried the Girton Girl. "Queen Victoria!"
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