He worships your ideal:” she replied :
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We scarcely thought in our own hall to hear This barren verbiage, current among men, 40.Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. Your flight from out your bookless wilds would seemAs arguing love of knowledge and of power ; Your language proves you still the child. Indeed,We dream not of him: when we set our hand 45To this great work, we purposed with ourself Never to wed. You likewise will do well, Ladies, in entering here, to cast and fling The tricks, which make us toys of men, that so, Some future time, if so indeed you will, 50You may with those self-styled our lords ally Your fortunes, justlier balanced, scale with scale.” At those high words, we, conscious of ourselves,Perused the matting ; then an officerRose up, and read the statutes, such as these : 55Not for three years to correspond with home ;Not for three years to cross the liberties ;Not for three years to speak with any men ;And many more, which hastily subscribed,We enter’d on the boards : and “ Now,” she eried, 60 38. your ideal, his ideal of.you; cf. III. 193; IV. 430. 40. verbiage, wordiness. 43, arguing. indicating. 50. will, wish. 53. conscious of ourselves, conscious of our disguise. 60, entered on the boards, the technical term at Cambridge for reg-istering as undergraduates,
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