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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER II
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I love and revere his memory--and (please God) I mean to carry out his ideas." The lawyer began to look uneasy.

"Do you refer, madam, to Mr.Wagner's political opinions ?" he inquired.
Fifty years ago, my old master's political opinions were considered to be nothing less than revolutionary.

In these days--when his Opinions have been sanctioned by Acts of Parliament, with the general approval of the nation--people would have called him a "Moderate Liberal," and would have set him down as a discreetly deliberate man in the march of modern progress.
"I have nothing to say about politics," my aunt answered.

"I wish to speak to you, in the first place, of my husband's opinions on the employment of women." Here, again, after a lapse of half a century, my master's heresies of the year 1828 have become the orthodox principles of the year 1878.

Thinking the subject over in his own independent way, he had arrived at the conclusion that there were many employments reserved exclusively for men, which might with perfect propriety be also thrown open to capable and deserving women.


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