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To cherish, protect, and advise you. And you must needs go out of it
all alone into a strange world of unknown dangers-"
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I wanted to learn," said Jessie.
You wanted to learn. May you never have anything to UNlearn."
AH!" from Mrs. Milton, very sadly.
It isn't fair for all of you to argue at me at once," submitted Jessie,
irrelevantly.
"A world full of unknown dangers," resumed the clergyman. "Your proper
place was surely the natural surroundings that are part of you. You
have been unduly influenced, it is only too apparent, by a class of
literature which, with all due respect to distinguished authoress
that shall be nameless, I must call the New Woman Literature. In that
deleterious ingredient of our book boxes--"
"I don't altogether agree with you there," said Miss Mergle, throwing
her head back and regarding him firmly through her spectacles, and Mr.
Widgery coughed.
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What HAS all this to do with me?" asked Jessie, availing herself of the
interruption.
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