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III. I thought I’d see Paris, do the thing—like a toff. “We don’t want things to happen!” Never had he shown his daughter so clearly
that the womenkind he was persuaded he had to protect and control could please
him in one way, and in one way only, and that was by doing nothing except the
punctual domestic duties and being nothing except restful appearances. Surely it was a dream. I didn’t!
I didn’t! After all—”
For a time her mind ran on daintiness and its defensive restraints as though it
was the one desirable thing. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. They were sounding more and more like
Civic every day. “Oh, there’s no doubt of it! Since the girls of the eighties broke bounds and
sailed away on bicycles—my young days go back to the very beginnings of that
—it’s been one triumphant relaxation.
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