She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. She approached a soft-looking bespectacled girl she had seen once in the halls and noticed for her haunted look. “Perhaps,” she said, “it is the London climate. She bathed frequently with ash and lye soap stolen from traders. A dovecoloured kincob gown, embroidered with large trees, and made very low in front, displayed to the greatest possible advantage, the rounded proportions of her figure; while a high-heeled, red-leather shoe did not detract from the symmetry of a very neat ankle, and a very small foot. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. And every day's experience proves that I was right. “You remind me of the story which they tell against us over here, you know—of the Englishman who refused to be saved from drowning because he was unacquainted with his rescuer. Sheppard had been interred. In his youth he must have been a remarkably handsome man, for he is still handsome. And from that point they went on to a thoroughly embittering wrangle. One of the cases in Jonathan's museum was now burst open, and a rope taken from it.
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