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The Solitary Summer
·
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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There
is
a
great
wall
of
ignorance
and
prejudice
dividing
us
from
the
people
on
our
place,
and
in
every
effort
to
help
them
we
knock
against
it
and
cannot
move
it
any
more
than
if
it
were
actual
stone.
Like
the
parson
on
the
subject
of
morals,
I
can
talk
till
I
am
hoarse
on
the
subject
of
health,
without
at
any
time
producing
the
faintest
impression.
When
things
are
very
bad
the
doctor
is
brought,
directions
are
given,
medicines
made
up,
and
his
orders,
unless
they
happen
to
be
approved
of,
are
simply
not
carried
out.
Orders
to
wash
a
patient
and
open
windows
are
never
obeyed,
because
the
whole
village
would
rise
up
if,
later
on,
the
illness
ended
in
death,
and
accuse
the
relatives
of
murder.
I
suppose
they
regard
us
and
our
like
who
live
on
the
other
side
of
the
dividing
wall
as
persons
of
fantastic
notions
which,
when
carried
into
effect
among
our
own
children,
do
no
harm
because
of
the
vast
strength
of
the
children
accumulated
during
years
of
eating
in
the
quantities
only
possible
to
the
rich.
Their
idea
of
happiness
is
eating,
and
they
naturally
suppose
that
everybody
eats
as
much
as
he
can
possibly
afford
to
buy.
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