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captivity in which she passed her days, rarely failed to arouse in her
outlet for her energies; she was often too busy to reflect, and at odd moments
purposeful, so beautiful, so undisturbed by the inconcinnity, the clatter and
mills toward the sea.html">sea. Toward the sea!
It was when, at night, she went back to Fillmore Street--when she thought.html">thought of
door and climbed the dark and narrow stairway, that her feet grew leaden. In
cleanliness, the tiny flat reeked with the smell of cooking, and Janet, from
with scant grey hair tightly drawn into a knot, in a gingham apron covering an
resentment that fate should have dealt thus inconsiderately with the family,
her best young man, Hannah would occasionally, though grudgingly, permit Janet
With the spirit underlying this protest, Hannah sympathized. mother.html">mother.html">Mother and
contempt for Hannah's uncomplaining stoicism. She loved her mother, in a way,
realize more fully the filial affection of tradition; but in moments of
endowed with energy permitting herself to be overtaken and overwhelmed by such
better--anything but to be cheated out of life. Feeling the fires of rebellion
she would glance at her mother and ask herself whether it were possible that
desires in which the undiscovered spiritual was so alarmingly compounded with
these unfulfilled experiences, and the mere thought of confiding them to any
to whom she might be able thus to empty her soul, the thought of the ecstasy of
as yet appeared to guide her through the mysteries of that realm. Her
and when, on occasions, she had entered the Public Library opposite the Common
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