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He told ed in a certain work I

had alondered how she occupied her ti Like

her husband she too published a little book Much later on I ca to do with pedestrianisrievances (and all women had them), a sort of compendious

theory and practice of feh at its

transparent simplicity But that authorship was revealed to me much

later I didn't of course ask Fyne ork his as engaged on;

but I norance of the world, of her

own sex and of the other kind of sinners Yet, where could she have got

any experience? Her father had kept her strictly cloistered Marriage

with Fyne was certainly a change but only to another kind of

claustration You ht to have been enough Why, yes! But, then, as she had set up for a

guide and teacher, there was nothing surprising for me in the discovery

that she was blind That's quite in order She was a profoundly

innocent person; only it would not have been proper to tell her husband

so