“We pretend bodies are ugly. She was still more stirred by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and screaming, her soul revolted. ” She answered. ” “And you?” “Rather!” “I wonder why?” “There’s no why. Now, as she stared at the image of her own face, she recalled something Major Alderley had said. ‘Parbleu, but it is not comfortable in the least in there. I wonder——” He turned slowly round. The Procession to Tyburn. Or, after all, is it worth while? The Channel is a little broader than the Boulevards— but one crosses it sometimes. Anna had told me that he carried always with him this bogus marriage certificate. She saw herself building up a life upon that —a life restrained, kindly, beautiful, a little pathetic and altogether dignified; a life of great disciplines and suppressions and extensive reserves.
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