And then her pace slackened. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. Women, she had been taught, who exposed the flesh of their bodies under the eyes of man were in a special catagory of the damned. You are going to accept a post as chorus girl, or super, or something of that sort. I didn’t allow myself to see things as they were in those days; now I do. I was just like a sort of dummy that does things as it is told—that is to say, as the strings are pulled. She was very greatly exercised by the two systems of values—the two series of explanations that her comparative anatomy on the one hand and her sense of beauty on the other, set going in her thoughts.
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