Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. "
"Oh! goodness!" ejaculated the tapstress, in alarm. “I can’t endure it,” she said. "I'll see him fettered myself. She got up, as she had been told to do, at his appearance, and he
amazed her by sitting down, according to custom, on her stool. I know less about this affair perhaps than you suppose. "Sit down, fool!"
"Jack," said Kneebone, who had been considerably interested by the foregoing
scene, "are these regrets for your past life sincere?"
"Suppose them so," rejoined Jack, "what then?"
"Nothing—nothing," stammered Kneebone, his prudence getting the better of his
sympathy. In any place her beauty would have been an uncommon
thing. Breakfast, too, was an impossible occasion.
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