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Then she found that the way to escape was easy One departed

from the whole circumstance One went away to the Grare teachers, the

Phillipses whom she had tried to love but who had ive She had an instinctive fear of

petty people, as a deer is afraid of dogs Because she was

blind, she could not calculate nor estimate people She must

think that everybody was just like herself

She measured by the standard of her own people: her father

and randmother, her uncles Her beloved father, so

utterly si, dark soul

fixed like a root in unexpressed depths that fascinated and

terrified her: her ely free of all money and

convention and fear, entirely indifferent to the world, standing

by herself, without connection: her grandmother, who had come

from so far and was centred in so wide an horizon: people must

come up to these standards before they could be Ursula's

people

So even as a girl of twelve she was glad to burst the narrow

boundary of Cossethay, where only li of real, proud people who to school by train, she , and she did not arrive again till

half-past five at evening Of this she was glad, for the house

was small and overful It was a storm of movement, whence there