Page 293 (2/2)

existed It ithin her like a dark weight, controlling her

irl

flung off the school and its association with her She was Miss

Brangwen, she was Standard Five teacher, she had herher, like a darkness hovering over her

heart and threatening to swoop down over it at every ht down Bitterly

she denied unto herself that she was really a schoolteacher

Leave that to the Violet Harbys She herself would stand clear

of the accusation It was in vain she denied it

Within herself soation She was incapable of fulfilling her

task She could never for a e

And so she felt inferior to Violet Harby Miss Harby was a

splendid teacher She could keep order and inflict knowledge on

a class with re to herself that she was infinitely, infinitely the

superior of Violet Harby She knew that Violet Harby succeeded

where she failed, and this in a task which was al upon her, wearing

her down She went about in these first weeks trying to deny it,

to say she was free as ever She tried not to feel at a

disadvantage before Miss Harby, tried to keep up the effect of

her own superiority But a great weight was on her, which Violet

Harby could bear, and she herself could not