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The Solitary Summer
·
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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I
know
what
I
would
do
if
I
were
both
poor
and
genteel--the
gentility
should
go
to
the
place
of
all
good
ilities,
including
utility,
respectability,
and
imbecility,
and
I
would
sit,
quite
frankly
poor,
with
a
piece
of
bread,
and
a
pot
of
geraniums,
and
a
book.
I
conclude
that
if
I
did
without
the
things
erroneously
supposed
necessary
to
decency
I
might
be
able
to
afford
a
geranium,
because
I
see
them
so
often
in
the
windows
of
cottages
where
there
is
little
else;
and
if
I
preferred
such
inexpensive
indulgences
as
thinking
and
reading
and
wandering
in
the
fields
to
the
doubtful
gratification
arising
from
kept-
up
appearances
(always
for
the
bedazzlement
of
the
people
opposite,
and
therefore
always
vulgar),
I
believe
I
should
have
enough
left
over
to
buy
a
radish
to
eat
with
my
bread;
and
if
the
weather
were
fine,
and
I
could
eat
it
under
a
tree,
and
give
a
robin
some
crumbs
in
return
for
his
cheeriness,
would
there
be
another
creature
in
the
world
so
happy?
I
know
there
would
not.
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