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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?" 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
Why should they be angry because her dress is so expensive and pretty? Indeed, I only wish I had such a dress. It is a thousand times prettier than any we ever wear. Look around the room, and see if it is not. And as to her not having learned to play on the piano, or to speak French--why should she be obliged to do 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.  OUR WAY IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER WHY SHOULD THEY BE ANGRY BECAUSE A DRESS IS SO EXPENSIVE AND PRETTY INDEED I ONLY WISH I HAD SUCH A DRESS IT IS A THOUSAND TIMES PRETTIER THAN ANY WE EVER WEAR LOOK ROUND THE ROOM AND SEE IF IT IS NOT AND AS TO OUR NOT HAVING LEARNED TO PLAY ON THE PIANO OR TO SPEAK FRENCH 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
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