E. Nesbit

Name: Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV : EMANCIPATED
Author: E. Nesbit

Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

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“Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV : EMANCIPATED”, published in 1909, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Daphne, Uncle Hamley and Jane.

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ Daphne arranged herself in a perfect pose—a pose completed in the mere act of permitting one of the dull leather chairs to support her eight stone odd of slender young womanhood, and the clerks in their hutches of brass and mahogany felt that this was indeed June. The selfish ones, biting the feathers of their pens, hoped that the Old Boy would not hurry himself—those capable of a really unselfish passion felt that it would be a shame if the Old Buffer should keep her waiting. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ Daphne would, in fact, if Uncle Hamley should prove amenable, be more free than ever to “live her own life,” an exercise which now seemed to hold more possibilities than she cared at the moment to analyse. Because now there would be someone to look after Doris—someone who could be trusted—and no remorse for neglecting the child could mingle with the intense retrospective satisfaction of having, say, sat for the sketch-club, or gone to tea with a Russian, or visited a picture gallery in company with Green Eyes, or exchanged a few words with a charcoal-covered artist whom she disliked. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ The one alleviation to the tedium of an articled clerk’s professional life is the possibility of interest always latent in clients. Some clients are comic, some contemptible. There is the angry client, always a boon—also there is the incoherent client, sometimes a joke. But the really perfect client, a rare bird flitting but too seldom across the Fields of Lincoln’s Inn, is the radiant young woman with whom a whole office full of clerks can fall in love, without effort or, of course, hope. Such was Daphne in her clay-coloured, rough silk, and the hat that was a rose garden. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ But, Cousin Jane had never had the letter. Daphne suspected Aunt Emily till, weeks later, she found the letter in the pocket of the gold and white cloth dress she had worn at the sketch-club on that night when she had sat on the stairs with a lame man. Heaven knew what she had posted—some old letter or empty envelope.
“Come,” said Daphne, “you must go to bed. It’s nearly two o’clock. Oh—yes—you must sleep with Doris—I can sleep in the deck chair. I can really. I’m almost as much of a dormouse as she is.” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ The child lay in her arm. She lay still, fearing to breathe lest she should break the spell, change this live thing that, trusting, clinging, lay against her side, to a child, awakened, surprised, possibly antagonistic.
Daphne came out from behind the curtain in a white and quite effective substitute for evening dress.
“Daphne,” said Cousin Jane, very softly because of the still sleeping Doris, “I’ve thought of something. Uncle Hamley is a woman’s suffrage man. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ And she was such a good tenant—one of the Shropshire Severns, you know, and that makes such a difference. But after all—I’m not sorry to be back again. There’s no place like home, is there, when you come to think of it?”
“No,” Daphne agreed, and turned to climb her attic stairs; “now you come to mention it, there really is no place like home.”
“Was the uncle all right?” Claud asked.
“Right as rain,” said Daphne. “Oh Claud, it was most frightfully wicked of you——”
“Wicked? Me? What?”
“But I do think it helped,” she went on. “Wicked things do sometimes. That’s what’s so odd.” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ I think it’s so dreadful, don’t you, when people have grown quite old, and no one ever seems to have been nice to them—worth mentioning?”
“You wait,” said Claud, “you mayn’t suspect your ignorance, but I assure you you don’t know what niceness really is. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XIV … (1909)

“ Also, he had admitted that a rational human being has some right of choice as to companions and employment. “And if,” he added, “you are happy with your Cousin Jane, I am willing to allow you to remain with her. I shall come to see you tomorrow afternoon; if I consider the house to be a suitable one for you to lodge in I will write to your aunt, Mrs. Veale, and explain that I have given my sanction to this new arrangement.”
“Oh, thank you,” came from Daphne’s heart “You’ll come to tea, won’t you? At five?”
Something in the frank hospitality pleased Uncle Hamley. ”

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