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The Odd Women

CHAPTER X
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They undertake one of the most difficult and arduous pursuits as if it were as simple as washing up dishes.

We can't earn money in any other way, but we can teach children! A man only becomes a schoolmaster or tutor when he has gone through laborious preparation--anything but wise or adequate, of course, but still conscious preparation; and only a very few men, comparatively, choose that line of work.

Women must have just as wide a choice.' 'That's plausible, cousin Mary.

But remember that when a man chooses his calling he chooses it for life.

A girl cannot but remember that if she marries her calling at once changes.


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