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The door opened, and a short, neutral-tinted young woman of about twenty-eight appeared.
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“Aren’t they done?” asked Ursula gaily, breaking in on his tense absorption.
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“Is the big Anderson here?” she asked of Mr. Brunt. And they spoke of some affair about two scholars, coldly, officially.
Miss Schofield took her brown dish, and Ursula followed with her own. The cloth was laid in the pleasant Standard Three room, there was a jar with two or three monthly roses on the table.
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“It is vegetarian hot-pot,” said Miss Schofield. “Would you like to try it?”
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Her own dinner seemed coarse and ugly beside this savoury, clean dish.
“I’ve never eaten vegetarian things,” she said. nike mercurial superfly “But I should think they can be good.”
“I’m not really a vegetarian,” said Maggie, “I don’t like to bring meat to school.”
“No,” said Ursula, “I don’t think I do either.”
And again her soul rang an answer to a new refinement, a new liberty. If all vegetarian things were as nice as this, she would be glad to escape the slight uncleanness of meat.
“How good!” she cried.
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“Is it as horrid as it seems?” asked Ursula, frowning lightly, in fear.
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Ursula’s heart sank, seeing even Miss Schofield in the deadly bondage.
“It is Mr. Harby,” said Maggie Schofield, breaking forth.
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She turned aside her head with a deep hurt. Some things she could not bear.
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She spoke with difficulty and with increased bitterness. She had evidently suffered. Her soul was raw with ignominy. Ursula suffered in response.
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