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The Solitary Summer
·
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Poor
Seraphine!
What
courage
to
weigh
anchor
at
eighteen
and
go
into
a
foreign
country,
to
a
place
where
you
are
among
utter
strangers,
without
a
friend,
unable
to
speak
a
word
of
the
language,
and
not
even
sure
before
you
start
whether
you
will
be
given
enough
to
eat.
Either
it
is
that
saddest
of
courage
forced
on
the
timid
by
necessity,
or,
as
Doctor
Johnson
would
probably
have
said,
it
is
stark
insensibility;
and
I
am
afraid
when
I
look
at
her
I
silently
agree
with
the
apostle
of
common
sense,
and
take
it
for
granted
that
she
is
incapable
of
deep
feeling,
for
the
altogether
inadequate
reason
that
she
has
a
certain
resemblance
to
a
teapot.
Now
is
it
not
hard
that
a
person
may
have
a
soul
as
beautiful
as
an
angel's,
a
dwelling-place
for
all
sweet
sounds
and
harmonies,
and
if
nature
has
not
thought
fit
to
endow
his
body
with
a
chin
the
world
will
have
none
of
him?
The
vulgar
prejudice
is
in
favour
of
chins,
and
who
shall
escape
its
influence?
I,
for
one,
cannot,
though
theoretically
I
utterly
reject
the
belief
that
the
body
is
the
likeness
of
the
soul;
for
has
not
each
of
us
friends
who,
we
know,
love
beyond
everything
that
which
is
noble
and
good,
and
who
by
no
means
themselves
look
noble
and
good?
And
what
about
all
the
beautiful
persons
who
love
nothing
on
earth
except
themselves?
Yet
who
in
the
world
cares
how
perfect
the
nature
may
be,
how
humble,
how
sweet,
how
gracious,
that
dwells
in
a
chinless
body?
Nobody
has
time
to
inquire
into
natures,
and
the
chinless
must
be
content
to
be
treated
in
something
of
the
same
good-natured,
tolerant
fashion
in
which
we
treat
our
poor
relations
until
such
time
as
they
shall
have
grown
a
beard;
and
those
who
by
their
sex
are
for
ever
shut
out
from
this
glorious
possibility
will
have
to
take
care,
should
they
be
of
a
bright
intelligence,
how
they
speak
with
the
tongues
of
men
and
of
angels,
nothing
being
more
droll
than
the
effect
of
high
words
and
poetic
ideas
issuing
from
a
face
that
does
not
match
them.
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