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Beyond the City

CHAPTER III
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She would have made a captain of the foretop in the old days." "She is a very remarkable woman." "A very cranky one." "A very sensible one in some things," remarked Mrs.Hay Denver.
"Look at that now!" cried the Admiral, with a lunge of his forefinger at the Doctor.

"You mark my words, Walker, if we don't look out that woman will raise a mutiny with her preaching.

Here's my wife disaffected already, and your girls will be no better.

We must combine, man, or there's an end of all discipline." "No doubt she is a little excessive in her views." said the Doctor, "but in the main I think as she does." "Bravo, Doctor!" cried the lady.
"What, turned traitor to your sex! We'll court-martial you as a deserter." "She is quite right.

The professions are not sufficiently open to women.
They are still far too much circumscribed in their employments.


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