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Hadria's eyes sparkled with suppressed excitement. "Freedom alone teaches us to meet generosity, generously," said Professor Fortescue; "you can't get the perpendicular virtues out of any but the really free-born." "Then do you describe women's virtues as horizontal?" enquired Miss Du Prel, half resentfully. "In so far as they follow the prevailing models.
If Miss Du Prel would think for a moment, she could not fail to see that Nature ... and so forth, in the same strain of "pious devotion to other people's duties" as his companion afterwards described it. She chafed at the exhortation to "think for a moment."
Hadria had long been wishing to find out what her oracle thought about certain burning questions on which the sisters held such strong, and such unpopular sentiments, but just because the feeling was so keen, it was difficult to broach the subject. An opportunity came when Miss Du Prel spoke of her past. Hadria was able to read between the lines.
This was in consequence of the new-comer's kindliness of manner, and not at all because of Miss Du Prel, who had forgotten Temperley's elegant existence. She had a look of surprise when he joined in the conversation. "I can scarcely believe that it is ten years since I was here," cried the Professor, pausing to look over a gate at the stretch of country.
She had been looking out for a retreat of the kind. "She seems a nice-like body," said Mrs. McEwen, "and I see no objection to the arrangement." Hadria's heart beat faster. Could it be possible that Valeria du Prel was to be a near neighbour? It seemed too good to be true!
Aristotle doubtless professed a high respect for women who followed his precepts as men do now when we are obedient." "Of course, our society in this particular has not wandered far from the Greek idea," Miss Du Prel observed pensively. Hadria pronounced the paradox, "The sharpness of the insult lies in its not being intended." Miss Du Prel could not prevail upon her to modify the assertion.
Miss Du Prel had never shewn so much disposition to support Hadria's conduct as now, when disapproval was general. She had a strong fellow-feeling for a woman who desired to use her power, and she was half disposed to regard her conduct as legitimate. At any rate, it was a temptation almost beyond one's powers of resistance. If a woman might not do this, what, in heaven's name, might she do?
If one could picture one's grocer weighing out sugar in a Spanish cloak and brigand's hat, it would afford an excellent symbol of his spiritual estate. To be perfectly commonplace in a brilliantly original way, is to be notable after all. Mr. Fleming seemed puzzled by Miss Du Prel, at whom he glanced uneasily from time to time, wondering what she would say next.
The latter had less success in her dealings with Miss Du Prel. She tried to discover Hadria's more intimate feelings by talking her over with Valeria, ignoring the snubs that were copiously administered by that indignant lady. Valeria spoke with sublime scorn of this attempt. "To try and pump information out of a friend! Why not listen at the key-hole, and be done with it!"
"Well, to answer the general by the particular, I have spent the morning, accompanied by a nice young brood of Cochin-China fowls, in Craddock churchyard." "Oh, I hate a churchyard," exclaimed Miss Du Prel, with a shudder. "It makes one think of the hideous mockery of life, and the more one would like to die, the worse seems the brutality of death and his hideous accompaniments.
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