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"
You
know
its
contents
?
"
she
queried
,
with
the
same
slight
smile
.
"
I
can
guess
.
"
Such
things
have
to
be
written
,
they
say
nowadays
,
"
--
she
went
on
--
"
And
,
certainly
,
to
judge
from
the
commendation
bestowed
on
these
sort
of
books
by
the
press
,
it
is
very
evident
that
the
wave
of
opinion
is
setting
in
the
direction
of
letting
girls
know
all
about
marriage
before
they
enter
upon
it
,
in
order
that
they
may
do
so
with
their
eyes
wide
open
--
very
wide
open
!
"
She
laughed
,
and
her
laughter
hurt
me
like
a
physical
wound
.
"
What
an
old-fashioned
idea
the
bride
of
the
poets
and
sixty-years-ago
romancists
seems
now
!
"
she
continued
--
"
Imagine
her
!
--
a
shrinking
tender
creature
,
shy
of
beholders
,
timid
of
speech
,
...
wearing
the
emblematic
veil
,
which
in
former
days
,
you
know
,
used
to
cover
the
face
entirely
,
as
a
symbol
that
the
secrets
of
marriage
were
as
yet
hidden
from
the
maiden
's
innocent
and
ignorant
eyes
.
Now
the
veil
is
worn
flung
back
from
the
bride
's
brows
,
and
she
stares
unabashed
at
everybody
--
oh
yes
,
indeed
we
know
quite
well
what
we
are
doing
now
when
we
marry
,
thanks
to
the
'
new
'
fiction
!
"
"
The
new
fiction
is
detestable
,
"
--
I
said
hotly
--
"
Both
in
style
and
morality
.
Even
as
a
question
of
literature
I
wonder
at
your
condescending
to
read
any
of
it
.
The
woman
whose
dirty
book
I
have
just
thrown
away
--
and
I
feel
no
compunction
for
having
done
it
--
is
destitute
of
grammar
as
well
as
decency
.
"
"
Oh
,
but
the
critics
do
n't
notice
that
,
"
--
she
interrupted
,
with
a
delicate
mockery
vibrating
in
her
voice
--
"
It
is
apparently
not
their
business
to
assist
in
preserving
the
purity
of
the
English
language
.
What
they
fall
into
raptures
over
is
the
originality
of
the
'
sexual
'
theme
,
though
I
should
have
thought
all
such
matters
were
as
old
as
the
hills
.
I
never
read
reviews
as
a
rule
,
but
I
did
happen
to
come
across
one
on
the
book
you
have
just
drowned
--
and
in
it
,
the
reviewer
stated
he
had
cried
over
it
!
"
She
laughed
again
.
"
Beast
!
"
I
said
emphatically
--
"
He
probably
found
in
it
some
glozing-over
of
his
own
vices
.
But
you
,
Sibyl
--
why
do
you
read
such
stuff
?
--
how
can
you
read
it
?
"
"
Curiosity
moved
me
in
the
first
place
,
"
--
she
answered
listlessly
--
"
I
wanted
to
see
what
makes
a
reviewer
cry
!
Then
when
I
began
to
read
,
I
found
that
the
story
was
all
about
the
manner
in
which
men
amuse
themselves
with
the
soiled
doves
of
the
highways
and
bye-ways
--
and
as
I
was
not
very
well
instructed
in
that
sort
of
thing
,
I
thought
I
might
as
well
learn
!
You
know
these
unpleasant
morsels
of
information
on
unsavoury
subjects
are
like
the
reputed
suggestions
of
the
devil
--
if
you
listen
to
one
,
you
are
bound
to
hear
more
.
Besides
,
literature
is
supposed
to
reflect
the
time
we
live
in
--
and
that
kind
of
literature
being
more
prevalent
than
anything
else
,
we
are
compelled
to
accept
and
study
it
as
the
mirror
of
the
age
.
"
With
an
expression
on
her
face
that
was
half
mirth
and
half
scorn
,
she
rose
from
her
seat
,
and
looked
down
into
the
lovely
lake
below
her
.
"
The
fishes
will
eat
that
book
--
"
she
observed
--
"
I
hope
it
will
not
poison
them
!
If
they
could
read
and
understand
it
,
what
singular
ideas
they
would
have
of
us
human
beings
!
"
