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violently whether she i in her, apart froent person to take any sort of interest

in her existence, she only caught her breath in one dry sob and said

nothing, made no other sound, made no movement When she was viciously

assured that she was in heart, mind, manner and appearance, an utterly

conation,

without anger She stood, a frail and passive vessel into which the

other went on pouring all the accumulated dislike for all her pupils, her

scorn of all her employers (the ducal one included), the accumulated

resentment, the infinite hatred of all these unrelieved years of--I won't

say hypocrisy The practice of perfect hypocrisy is a relief in itself,

a secret triu

even with the common morality from which some of us appear to suffer so

much No! I will say the years, the passionate, bitter years, of

restraint, the iron, admirablyperfect correctness of speech, glances, h reputation, an impressive record of

success in her sphere It had been like living half strangled for years