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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ROSE CHAPTER I r IHE Pinsents never saw any reason why A they shouldn't be modern without-as they expressed it-going too far. They did n't believe in the sheltered-life system, but that was perhaps because they rather under-estimated their own idea of what constituted a shelter. There were Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ROSE CHAPTER I r IHE Pinsents never saw any reason why A they shouldn't be modern without-as they expressed it-going too far. They did n't believe in the sheltered-life system, but that was perhaps because they rather under-estimated their own idea of what constituted a shelter. There were certain risks, of course, in allowing your daughters to play mixed hockey, smoke cigarettes and belong to a suffrage movement (they could attend meetings, but were n't to throw stones). Still, it was strange how little harm these concessions to modernity had done the Pinsent girls. Bernard Shaw rolled off them like water from a duck's back. Somewhere between the ages of fourteen and seventeen Mrs. Pinsent presented her daughters with an approximate definition oflife. Agatha yawned and Edith said, "Oh, dear! We knew all that ages ago." For a moment Mrs. Pinsent became agitated. Had they, in spite of the healthiness of their surroundings, come in contact with evil influences? But she was reassured when Agatha explained that they had picked it up from rabbits. Rose, who was more sensitive and less observant, gave her mother more trouble than the others, but she acquiesced at last that God must know best, though it all seemed rather funny. They were not to earn their own livings because later on-(later on being the term in which the Pinsent parents envisaged their retreat from this world) they would have plenty of money; but they were expected to develop hobbies. The eldest girls developedsplendid hobbies. Agatha, who was the plainest of the three, became a lawn tennis champion with a really smashing serve. Edith distinguished herself by writing a history of one of our western counties. She rode all over it on a bicycle and stayed at vicarages by herself. She earned a Books, History~~General, Helen-of-Troy~~Phyllis-Bottome, , , , , , , , , , Nabu Press<

ISBN: 9781143266577

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ISBN: 9781143266577

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