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Mrs. Warren’s Daughter

CHAPTER XIV
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These were among the pleasantest of the manifestations and excited great good humour in the populace of town and country.

They were extended picnics of ten days or a fortnight.
The steady tramp of sixteen to twenty miles a day did the women good; the food _en route_ was abundant and eaten with tremendous appetite.

The pilgrims on arrival in London were a justification in physical fitness of Woman's claim to equal privileges with Man.
Vivie after her Easter holiday took an increasingly active part in these manifestations of usually good-humoured insurrection.

As Vivien Warren she was not much known to the authorities or to the populace but she soon became so owing to her striking appearance, telling voice and gift of oratory.

All the arts she had learnt as David Williams she displayed now in pleading the woman's cause at the Albert Hall, at Manchester, in Edinburgh and Glasgow.


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