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Updated: June 12, 2025
Be content to show our girls that it is their duty to lead a life of effort to earn their bread and to cultivate their minds. Simply ignore marriage that's the wisest. Behave as if the thing didn't exist. You will do positive harm by taking the other course the aggressive course. 'I shall obey you. 'Good, humble creature! laughed Miss Barfoot. 'Come, let us be off to Chelsea.
If you were more human if you tried to believe The agitation which found utterance in these words had its effect upon Rhoda. In spite of herself she was touched by the note of womanly distress. 'Why have you come? Why do you tell me this? 'Because it isn't only that I have been falsely accused. I felt I must tell you that Mr. Barfoot had never-that there was nothing between us.
Of society in the common sense Miss Barfoot saw very little; she had no time to sacrifice in the pursuit of idle ceremonies. By the successive deaths of two relatives, a widowed sister and an uncle, she had come into possession of a modest fortune; but no thought of a life such as would have suggested itself to most women in her place ever tempted her.
When I first met her, three years ago, I was a simpleton; I thought myself ill-used because I had to work hard for next to no payment and live in solitude. Now I should be ashamed to complain of what falls to the lot of thousands of girls. 'Do you like Miss Nunn? asked Monica. 'Not so well as Miss Barfoot, but I think very highly of her.
That announcement would excite something more than surprise. Mary Barfoot could not but smile with gentle irony; other women would laugh among themselves; the girls would feel a shock, as at the fall of one who had made heroic pretences. A sure way of averting this ridicule was by furnishing occasion for much graver astonishment.
'Oh yes, I think it will, answered Miss Barfoot, with her gentlest smile. 'She fell in love with the man. 'Fell in love! Concentration of scorn was in this echo. 'Oh, for what isn't that phrase responsible! 'Rhoda, let me ask you a question on which I have never ventured. Do you know what it is to be in love?
Miss Barfoot did not look upon her enterprise as a source of pecuniary profit, but she had made the establishment more than self-supporting. Her pupils increased in number, and the working department promised occupation for a larger staff than was at present engaged. The young women in general answered their friend's expectations, but of course there were disappointing instances.
A raising of the finger and Everard Barfoot would marry her. Assured of that, she felt a new contentment in life; at times when she was occupied with things as far as possible from this experience, a rush of joy would suddenly fill her heart, and make her cheek glow. She moved among people with a conscious dignity quite unlike that which had only satisfied her need of distinction.
Monica had not attended that lecture of Miss Barfoot's, and so, it was evident, had purposely deceived her husband. To what end? Where were those hours spent? Mildred Vesper's report supplied grounds for sombre conjecture, and the incident at Sloane Square Station, the recollection of Monica and Barfoot absorbed in talk, seemed to have a possible significance which fired Rhoda with resentment.
Mary Barfoot had loved her cousin Everard; it began when he was one-and-twenty; she, so much older, had never allowed Everard or any one else to suspect her passion, which made her for two or three years more unhappy than she had ever been, or was ever to be when once her strong reason had prevailed.
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