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man, she had found another way to escape from the world Such world as

was open to her--without shelter, without bread, without honour The

best she could have found in it would have been a precarious dole of pity

di as her years increased The appeal of the abandoned child

Flora to the sympathies of the Fynes had been irresistible But now she

had beco an implacable front to a

particularly feminine transaction I may say triumphantly feminine It

is true that Mrs Fyne did not omen to be women Her theory was

that they should turn themselves into unscrupulous sexless nuisances An

offended theorist dwelt in her bosom somewhere In ay she expected

Flora de Barral to set about saving herself from a most miserable

existence I can't conceive; but I verify believe that she would have

found it easier to forgive the girl an actual cri of

the Bournemouth old lady's desk, for instance And then--for Mrs Fyne

was very much of a wo within her; and though she had not much use for her brother, yet

she did not like to see hiirl And such a girl, too Nothing is truer than that, in this world,

the luckless have no right to their opportunities--as if al disqualification Fyne's sentiments (as they naturally would be

in a ood deal of his sympathy survived

Indeed I heard hirity of his do lying curled up in sleep in the ested

in a subdued impersonal tone: "Yes Why not let yourself be persuaded?"