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Beatrice

CHAPTER IX
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It was Geoffrey who broke it.
"Miss Granger," he said, "will you allow me to preach you a lecture, a very short one ?" "Go on," she said.
"Very well.

Do not blame me if you don't like it, and do not set me down as a prig, though I am going to tell you your faults as I read them in your own words.

You are proud and ambitious, and the cramped lines in which you are forced to live seem to strangle you.

You have suffered, and have not learned the lesson of suffering--humility.

You have set yourself up against Fate, and Fate sweeps you along like spray upon the gale, yet you go unwilling.


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