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At times her judgment surprised him with its elemental clarity, its penetrating soundness. The power of thinking for herself hadn't been educated out of her; she had not been stodged with other people's mostly dead people's thoughts, therefore she had room for her own. He reflected that a little wholesome neglect might be added to the modern curriculum with great advantage to the youthful mind.
This was a social rite the omission of which nothing could excuse. On that day it was Ethel who had called. 'Auntie was all right. She was making a lot of parkin, and of course I had to taste it, all new, you know. I'm simply stodged. 'Don't say "stodged." 'Oh, mother! You won't let us say anything, Ethel dismally protested; and Leonora secretly sympathised with the grown woman in revolt. 'Oh!
'I think you must come, said Gillian, 'mamma said you had better come home when I do. 'Yes, said Wilfred, 'we don't want a pack of girls to go and get tired. 'We shall go into all sorts of places not fit for you, said Jasper; 'you wouldn't come back with a whole petticoat among you. 'And Val would be left stodged in a ditch for a month of Sundays, added Wilfred.
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