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other man's And hy? She decided it was a question of

knowledge

The curate was poor enough, and not very efficacious as a

man, either, yet he took rank with those others, the superior

She watched his children being born, she saw thes beside their mother And already they were separate

from her own children, distinct Why were her own children

marked below the others? Why should the curate's children

inevitably take precedence over her children, why should

doiven them from the start? It was not money, nor

even class It was education and experience, she decided

It was this, this education, this higher forive to her children, so that they too

could live the supreme life on earth For her children, at least

the children of her heart, had the complete nature that should

take place in equality with the living, vital people in the

land, not be left behind obscure a the labourers Why must

they remain obscured and stifled all their lives, why should

they suffer from lack of freedom to move? How should they learn

the entry into the finer, more vivid circle of life?