You daren't be anything that isn't amazingly A TERRE, SO much A TERRE that it is the artistic creation of ordinariness.' 'It's very dull to create oneself into nothing better,' laughed Ursula.
'Very dull!' retorted Gudrun.

'Really Ursula, it is dull, that's just the word.

One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it.' Gudrun was becoming flushed and excited over her own cleverness.
'Strut,' said Ursula.

'One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese.' 'Exactly,' cried Gudrun, 'a swan among geese.' 'They are all so busy playing the ugly duckling,' cried Ursula, with mocking laughter.

'And I don't feel a bit like a humble and pathetic ugly duckling.