What does such a being want with the drudgery of learning?
to such keenness life will be master enough.

Yet she has evidently read a good deal--much poetry, some scattered political economy, some modern socialistic books, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin, Carlyle.

She takes everything dramatically, imaginatively, goes straight from it to life, and back again.

Among the young people with whom she made acquaintance while she was boarding in London and working at South Kensington, there seem to have been two brothers, both artists, and both Socialists; ardent young fellows, giving all their spare time to good works, who must have influenced her a great deal.

She is full of angers and revolts, which you would delight in.