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In all these things there was the sound of a bugle to her

heart, exhilarating, suot her brown "Longman's First French Graes, nor her little grey Algebra book

There was always a ent, instinctive, but she

was not "thorough" If a thing did not come to her

instinctively, she could not learn it And then, herfor all lessons, her bitter contempt of all teachers

and schoolance

made her detestable

She was a free, unabateable animal, she declared in her

revolts: there was no law for her, nor any rule She existed for

herself alone Then ensued a long struggle with everybody, in

which she broke down at last, when she had run the full length

of her resistance, and sobbed her heart out, desolate; and

afterwards, in a chastened, washed-out, bodiless state, she

received the understanding that would not come before, and went

her way sadder and wiser

Ursula and Gudrun went to school together Gudrun was a shy,

quiet, wild creature, a thin slip of a thing hanging back froain

She seemed to avoid all contact, instinctively, and pursued her

own intent way, pursuing half-formed fancies that had no

relation to anyone else

She was not clever at all She thought Ursula clever enough

for two Ursula understood, so why should she, Gudrun, bother