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"We are afraid of every thing," said Lucia bitterly. "Lydia Egerton is afraid  though you might not think so. And, as for me, nobody knows what a coward I am but myself. WE ARE AFRAID OF EVERYTHING SAID LUCIA BITTERLY LYDIA EGERTON IS AFRAID THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT THINK SO AND AS FOR ME NOBODY KNOWS WHAT A COWARD I AM BUT MYSELF
o things she feels she would not be clever at? I am not clever, and have been a sort of slave all my life, and have been scolded and blamed for what I could not help at all, until I have felt as if I must be a criminal. How happy she must have been to be let alone!" She had clasped her little hands, and, though she spoke in a low voice, was quite impassioned in an unconscious way. Her brief girlish life had not been a very happy one, as may be easily imagined; and a glimpse of the liberty for which she had suffered roused her to a sense of her own wrongs. "We are all cut out after the same pattern," she said. "We learn the same things, and wear the same dresses, one might say. What Lydia Egerton has been taught, I have been taught; yet what two creatures could be more unlike each other, by nature, than we are?" Mr. Burmistone glanced across the room at Miss Egerton. She was a fine, robust young woman, with a high nose and a stolid expression of countenance. "That is true," he remarked. NCH WHY SHOULD SHE BE OBLIGED TO DO THINGS SHE FEELS SHE WOULD NOT BE CLEVER AT I'M NOT CLEVER AND HAVE BEEN A SORT OF SLAVE ALL MY LIFE AND HAVE BEEN SCOLDED AND BLAMED FOR WHAT I COULD NOT HELP AT ALL UNTIL I HAVE FELT AS IF I MUST BE A CRIMINAL HOW HAPPY SHE MUST HAVE BEEN TO BE LET ALONE SHE HAD CLASPED HER LITTLE HANDS AND THOUGH SHE SPOKE IN A LOW VOICE WAS QUITE UNPASSIONED IN AN UNCONSCIOUS WAY HER BRIEF GIRLISH LIFE HAD NOT BEEN A VERY HAPPY ONE AS MAY BE EASILY IMAGINED AND A GLIMPSE OF THE LIBERTY FOR WHICH SHE HAD SUFFERED ROUSED HER TO A SENSE OF HER OWN WRONGS WE ARE ALL CUT OUT AFTER THE SAME PATTERN SHE SAID WE LEARN THE SAME THINGS AND WEAR THE SAME DRESSES ONE MIGHT SAY WHAT LYDIA EGERTON HAS BEEN TAUGHT I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT YET WHAT TWO CREATURES COULD BE MORE UNLIKE EACH OTHER BY NATURE THAN WE ARE MISTER BURMISTONE GLANCED ACROSS THE ROOM AT MISS EGERTON SHE WAS A FINE ROBUST YOUNG WOMAN WITH A HIGH NOSE AND A STOLID EXPRESSION OF COUNTENANCE THAT IS TRUE HE REMARKED
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