"Come Bess,—no whimpering. Roused by the bell tolling for evening service, Jack left the house. She felt she must fly before it and could no longer do so. Most of the vessels lying in the river were driven from their moorings, dashed tumultuously against each other, or blown ashore. Aunt Jane had her quiet moments. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel in Soho! He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his sister had become altogether too urgent. The moment she entered the room and he rose, she felt that she was immediately consigned to the circle of strangers; and it emptied her heart of its joy and filled it with diffidence. I am carrying back a hundred new books and forty new records for the piano-player. Earles is going out at twelve sharp—important engagement. Her mother informed her of the betrothal on the first painful day of her menarche, shortly after her eleventh birthday. Sometimes ships would stop three or four days for water and repairs; and the men would carouse in the back room at Morgan's. " "But you are educated!"—astonished.
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