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"Oh, heavens, Aunt Sanna," Julia protested, with a rather sad little smile, "I was an awful little person with stringy hair, and colds in my nose, and no hankies! I never had baths, and never had regular meal hours, or regular diet, for that matter! Anna'll be very different from what I was." "Your mother was to blame, Ju," Miss Toland said, gravely shaking her head.
Three or four waiting young people said, "Oh, Barbara!" in tones of great delight, and the fourth no less eagerly substituted, "Oh, Miss Toland!" "How long have you poor, long-suffering catfish been waiting here?" demanded Miss Barbara Toland, with a sort of easy sweetness that Julia found instantly enviable.
"Miss Toland will marry," Julia submitted. "Perhaps she will," her aunt said. "Perhaps, again, she won't. But at all events, it's a rather flat business, all this rushing about to dinners and dances; it'll last a few years perhaps then what? I tell you what, my dear, there's only one good thing in this world, and that's WORK self-expression.
Barbara, throwing her a glance of utter weariness, begged politely: "PLEASE don't bother about it, Mother. PLEASE. I'd rather not." "Well," Mrs. Toland conceded, with dissatisfaction. An uncomfortable silence reigned, until Miss Toland began suddenly to talk of Julia. "She's a very unusual girl," said she. "She's UTTERLY and ENTIRELY satisfactory to me."
He did not fail to revise the Essay from time to time; and his Reasonableness of Christianity, which, through Toland, provoked a reply from Stillingfleet and showed Locke in retort a master of the controversial art, was in some sort the foundation of the deistic debate in the next epoch. But his chief work had already been done, and he spent his energies in rewarding the affection of his friends.
Is not every body freely allowed to believe whatever he pleases, and to publish his belief to the world whenever he thinks fit, especially if it serves to strengthen the party which is in the right? Would any indifferent foreigner, who should read the trumpery lately written by Asgil, Tindal, Toland, Coward, and forty more, imagine the Gospel to be our rule of faith, and confirmed by parliaments?
Miss Toland dozed, and the younger people talked a little, and were silent for long spaces between the little casual sentences that to-night seemed so full of meaning. The next day Julia went home, to Miss Toland's disgust and to little Anna's sorrow.
"Well," Miss Toland said, somewhat distressed, "of course, I'd rather walk into a bull fight than advise " "I know you would," Julia hastened to assure her. "That's why I've been talking," she added, "and it's been a real relief! Don't think I'm complaining, Aunt Sanna " "No, my dear," Miss Toland said. "I'll never think anything that isn't good of you, Julie," she went on.
Toland, big tears beginning to run down her cheeks. "Ah, Mother!" Constance said soothingly, at her mother's knees. "Sally's of age, of course," Jim argued soothingly, "and one couldn't bring her home like a child. The thing would have gotten out, and she'd have been a marked girl for life!
Their charges, they explained, about two hundred in number, were very impressionable, very easily excited. A stranger in the chapel meant a sensation. Of course, the lay workers of the institution and the old people from the Home across the way sometimes came in, but they were so soberly dressed. "Oh, certainly!" Miss Toland had agreed eagerly.
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