7/21 She repeated it, word for word." "Pon my honour, women are wonderful creatures!" The two young men continued their remarks, with a sense of perfect consistency. "I see you are all bent on spoiling her. If you were to sit and talk with her, you would perceive that she's meant for more than to make a machine of her throat. What a throat it is! She has the most comical notion of things. She's a born artist, but I'm afraid everybody's conspiring to ruin her." "Surely," said Adela, "we shall not do that, if we encourage her in her Art." "He means another kind of art," said Lady Gosstre. |