Part 1 (2/2)
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”You think I a,” she said
”Are you not?”
”And very innocent, or ignorant, or whatever word you would use to explain me”
”You can hardly have probed life very deeply yet,” said Ellerey
”Much deeper than you would iine,” she answered ”You are not so very wise and old yourself, are you?”
”Indeed, no; I fancy I ahed
”You should not let yourself think that,” she said gravely ”To think highly of one's powers is half-way to success That sounds as if I had stolen so froh? Some of us have to touch life's hardshi+ps early”
”You do not show thewhether to treat her seriously or not
”No, but I ht, were I conscious of what is before irls There is a destiny I have to struggle towards, an end I enerations of enerations of men beats to-day in the heart of a wo”
”At least the spirit in you deserves success”
”Co his arm, and then she pointed down into the valley below the the trees, with a point of conical roof at the end of it?”
”Yes”
”Do you knohat it is?”
”No”
”By this ti forhalf an hour ago That's a school, a big, expensive, fashi+onable school, where they teach young ladies how to behave properly, how to grow up to rule those fightingof, how to fit themselves to be their wives, and in due time the mothers of their children--in short, how to fulfil their destiny, wo to teach irls there, and I've played truant, and--yes, I think I shall go back presently, when I have taken ”
”And will get punished, I am afraid,” said Ellerey
”Perhaps; but it will not be very heavy punishe, but they rather like ”
”I do not think that is strange at all”
”No, you wouldn't; you're a man,” she answered quickly, ”and men are here attractive women are concerned, all the world over”
Such a declaration coirl somewhat startled Ellerey, and yet, as he looked at her, he was irl
”Oh, yes, I know I a of the color in her face as she said it ”I alad that it is so My looks will help ins in earnest, when I have played the truant froo back”
”Then you intend to run away eventually?”