![]() We rebel against it with Helen we cannot accept this triumph of nature without seeming to love something precious life is a compromise, but the spirit cannot be content with mere solidities. The reaction carried her far, and she resented Margaret's defection. She had fallen in love with the Wilcox family, and with a boy of it she "had vowed to be less polite to servants in the future," and had perceived the charms of downrightness and brutality, of "the life of anger and telegrams". ![]() It is all very surprising, and it is a remarkable stroke of art that makes the younger sister, Helen, approach the hard masters of the world first. And Margaret, who is twenty years his junior, loves him she does not develop as the romantic convention would have her, but according to profound instincts and fundamental good sense. He has not the least comprehension of what we may call his wife's spiritual portion he does bad things, such as filching public lands and trading unscrupulously, which she abhors and there is even conjured up, to his momentary confusion, a battered mistress who proves him to have been unfaithful to his first wife, a woman after Margaret's own heart. Henry is not at all in the front of civilisation, but rather at the base of it he is elderly, prosaic, competent, and everything that romance is not. ![]()
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