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Latin, the syntax bored her Most tedious was the close study of

English literature Why should one re in mathematics, their cold absoluteness, fascinated

her, but the actual practice was tedious Some people in history

puzzled her and ered

her, and she hated nant sense of acquisition and enrich As You Like It; once when,

with her blood, she heard a passage of Latin, and she kne

the blood beat in a Roman's body; so that ever after she felt

she knew the Rolish Graave her pleasure to detect the live

moveht of the letters in Algebra, had a real lure for her

She felt so ot a queer, wondering, half-scared look, as if she were

not sure what ht seize upon her at any moment out of the

unknown

Odd little bits of information stirred unfathomable passion

in her When she knew that in the tiny brown buds of autumn were

folded, minute and complete, the finished flowers of the summer

nine , a

flash of triumph and love went over her