[The March Family Trilogy by William Dean Howells]@TWC D-Link bookThe March Family Trilogy PART FIFTH 9/236
He admires you ever so much.
He says" She stopped, teasingly. "What ?" "He says you could be almost anything you wished, if you didn't wish to be everything." "That sounds more like the school of Wetmore.
That's what you say, Alma. Well, if there were something you wished me to be, I could be it." "We might adapt Kingsley: 'Be good, sweet man, and let who will be clever.'" He could not help laughing.
She went on: "I always thought that was the most patronizing and exasperating thing ever addressed to a human girl; and we've had to stand a good deal in our time.
I should like to have it applied to the other 'sect' a while.
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