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Excerpt from The Fringe of the Desert
The fog closed round her father again; Hildred felt that it would have lifted occasionally if she had been beautiful or even pretty. She came to this conclusion without rancour, accepting it rather as a natural fact than a tangible source of grievance, for young as she had been at their meeting, she realised that in her father's eyes the supreme duty of woman was to be beautiful his other requirements of the sex, as a sex, she had yet to discover. The Misses Dering carefully superintended her education; morally, mentally, and physically her development had progressed as far as their limitations allowed. She had had a year in Germany, a year in Italy, and a year in France, and she had returned to her cousins' house in Essex, prepared to settle down, for a summer at least, to the ordinary holiday life of the ordinary English girl. For the winter she had the germ of plans which were yet to mature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
