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any attention to you, that you are free to unlearn everything

you ever learned, and go back till you are not fit for Standard

Three I shall exae, he went aith his cane, leaving Ursula to

confront a pale, quivering class, whose childish faces were shut

in blank resenter and contempt for her rather than of the master, whose

eyes looked at her with the cold, inhuman accusation of

children And she could hardly ave an order they obeyed with an insolent

off-handedness, as if to say: "As for you, do you think ould

obey you, but for the ,

caned boys to their seats, knowing that they too jeered at her

and her authority, holding her weakness responsible for what

punishment had overtaken them And she knew the whole position,

so that even her horror of physical beating and suffering sank

to a deeper pain, and beca the next week, watch over her books, and

punish any fault Her soul decided it coldly Her personal

desire was dead for that day at least She

more of herself in school She was to be Standard Five teacher

only That was her duty In school, she was nothing but Standard

Five teacher Ursula Brangwen must be excluded