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The Convert

Chapter 25: THE MACMILLAN JUVENILE LIBRARY
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A woman returns to a household and must negotiate domestic roles, social expectations, and a fraught personal history. Intimate scenes in drawing-rooms and nurseries reveal everyday power struggles between children, servants, and relatives, while small details of manners and ornamentation expose underlying resentments. The narrative traces how past sacrifices and unspoken secrets shape present relationships, showing the tension between independence and duty. Through steady observation of social ritual and private compromise, the work presents both satirical and sympathetic views of personal conscience and communal obligation.

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Child—Jim Hands.
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Davis—A Friend of Cæsar.
Drummond—The Justice of the King.
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London—Burning Daylight.
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Lucas—Mr. Ingleside.
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Norris—Mother.
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Pryor—The Colonel's Story.
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THE MACMILLAN JUVENILE LIBRARY

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation (misplaced quotes and the like) have been corrected. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are noted below (back to opening note):

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about that long'--he measured less than an inch on his minute
fore-finger[hyphen removed]--'with long holes through so they

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refusal to let
attenion[attention] go was mitigated by something in the quietness,

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'Why?' said Mr. Freddy, sticking in his
eye-glass[hyphen removed].

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kept watching with a kind of
half-absent-[hyphen added]minded scorn

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Dr. Pankhurst and Mr. Jacob Bright passed a second reading.
"[']

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next monster petition to Parliament asking for Woman's Suffrage.
"[']

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the vivid scarlet lips; almost
spleepy[sleepy] the heavy-lidded eyes.

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Those of you who want to see women free, hold up your hands.
"[']

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'We got a gryte deal to do with our
wgyes[wyges], we women has.

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'Why didn't you stay where I left you?
"['] he answered, without

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a rich chuckle. 'She's a educatin' of us!
[']

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"Look at this big crowd. W'y, we're all men! If the women want the vote, w'y ain't they here to s'y so?
["] Well, I'll tell you w'y. It's because they've 'ad to get

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in a turtle-esque fashion
highty[highly] provocative,

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whose crime is, they ask for the vote?
'["] But try as I would,

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Stonor as he came in seemed to take no
acccount[account] of those

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for that moment he
semed[seemed] as bankrupt in denunciation