Denzil Quarrier

town?" inquired Denzil of his sister the next morning

at do you wa

cal habitation-the mo

rsedge ex

going on,

ertised in this rag?" He took up yesterday

ve very wel

a state of very high pressure, unable to keep still or engage in any quiet pursuit, he set off the instant to view this house. It stood in a high-walled garden, which was entered through heavy iron-barred gates, one of them now open. The place had rather a forlorn look, due in part to the decay of the foliage wh

ary. A lady is there at present.

Yes, I know

idence am

sir-being a friend of th

of the interior contrasted cheerfully with that of the chambers into which he had looked. There was no great collection of books, but some fine engravings filled the vacancies around. At the smal

l voice. "I have come to look over the house, and was just

e was universally considered eccentric, and, by many people, hardly proper for an acquaintance. On her first arrival in the town she wore the garb of recent widowhood;

wer whatever over his sensibilities. It might be that of a high-spirited and large-brained woman; beautiful it could not be called. There was something amiss with the eyes. All the other features might pass: they were neither plain nor comely: a forehead of good type, a very ordinary nose, largish lips, chin su

e of bonnet. Here too, though allowing her surprise to be seen, she had the bearing of perfect self-possession, and perhaps of conscious superiority. Fawn-coloured hair

d Denzil explained h

going to settl

is, to keep a

rried, I think,

N

the Institute last ni

secret. My brother-in-law wishes me to mak

ling to meet your advances. On one ques

ho found himself speaking very freely

rnibrook's absence, I must represent her. They are good en

took

h any particular

y of woman

as forgotten my classics

ic de, and I couldn't pass an exam. in the hypotheti

led the word "examination" in an off-hand way which smacked of an undergraduate, and her attitude on

eal more right to speak of woman's claims

with a good-humour

minds me of that with which you began l

y sorry to have been gui

f the best part of your lecture-that where you spoke of girls being entrapped into monstrous marri

unable to meet the steely gaz

f the world? But," he changed the subject, "don't you

my wor

work of pro

; but what's the good?-there's too much of that centralization. The obscurantists take very good care to sprea

ou make any

ence here ensures that. I dare say you hav

nderstand why Mrs. Wade was con

exerted against me, I h

u see that I have alre

my Radicalism is not of

rier, though the dialogue entert

ade; though I fear you haven't much pleasu

thing is that we have got so little ahead of them in the facts of female life.

ch importance to the rig

attach all importance to a state of things which takes

e number of exceptions. You must

it symbolizes full citizenship. I won't aim at anything less than that. Women must

I think they must be taught to

er when you have more time to spare. Do you know my address? Pear-tree Cottag

wledgments, shook han

attentively, but in silence; his features expressed grave thought. Mr. and Mrs. Hornibrook, he was told, were living in G

than this, but he did not care to linger in the business. As he passed out of the iron gates he made up his mind that