‘I—I mean, she were—’ ‘Pretty as a picture?’ suggested Gerald. . In nearly every speech she heard was the same implication of great and necessary changes in the world—changes to be won by effort and sacrifice indeed, but surely to be won. He would read the jokes and illustrate them; and after a time I could see the point of a joke without having it explained to me. They were terrible, horrible people. “This is the slavery of the veiled life. But to plunge blindly into the unknown!" "I had to! I had to!" She had told him only the first part of her story. She often found herself absorbed by watching the tall grass undulate from the cave’s central doorway as solitary hunters prowled for buffalo and stag on the plain. Smith, may have rather odd ways with them; but—" "They have very odd ways," interrupted Mrs. ’ ‘I thank you,’ Gerald said drily. " "My son!" echoed the widow, trembling. While he was thus standing, the flames of his house, which made the whole street as light as day, and ruddily illumined the faces of the mob below, betrayed him to them, and he was speedily driven from his position by a shower of stones and other missiles. She was still more stirred by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and screaming, her soul revolted. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes.
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