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There is, perhaps, no condition of mind more difficult for the ordinarily well-instructed inhabitant of a city to realise than that of such a girl as Ruby Ruggles The rural day labourer and his wife live on a level surface which is coood or evil,--whether for food and drink to be honestly earned for themselves and children, or for drink first, to be come by either honestly or dishonestly,--are, if looked at at all, fairly visible And with the enerally find out what they would be at, and in what direction their les young wohter i than theand relieved frohts soar into a world which is as unknown to her as heaven is to us, and in regard to which her longings are apt to be infinitely stronger than are ours for heaven Her education has been much better than that of the man She can read, whereas he can only spell words from a book She can write a letter after her fashion, whereas he can barely spell words out on a paper Her tongue is norance as to the reality of things is ross than his By such contact as he has with men in markets, in the streets of the towns he frequents, and even in the fields, he learns so unconsciously of the relative condition of his countryination is obtuse But the wos To the young far verysquire is an Apollo, whom to look at is a pleasure,--by whoer for the irl marries after her kind, and then husband and children put the matter at rest for ever

A les as to the world beyond Suffolk and Norfolk it would be ihts were as wide as they were vague, and as active as they were erroneous Why should she with all her prettiness, and all her cleverness,--with all her fortune to boot,--marry that dustiest of allof the beauties of the things of which she had read in the books which ca He was a sturdy, honest fellow, too,--slow of speech but sure of his points when he had got therip,-- fond of his beer but not often drunk, and the very soul of industry at his work But though she had known him all her life she had never known hiotten within his hair, and skin, and raiether even on Sundays His norh which indeed some records of hidden ruddiness would make themselves visible, but which was so judiciously assimilated to his hat and coat and waistcoat, that he wasman Nevertheless it was said of hiay, and carry two hundredweight of flour upon his back And Ruby also knew this of hiround on which she trod