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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER XIII
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And you are so all over a radical, that it won't hurt you to be toned down a little, and in a few years, as the world moves, your family will have moved one way and you the other a little, and you will suddenly find yourself on the same plane.

It is much the way that has been between Miss -- -- and myself.

To-day she is more of a women's rights woman than I was when I first knew her, while I begin to think that the girls would better dress at tea-time, though I think on that subject we thought alike at first, so I'll take another example.
"I have learned to think that a _young_ girl would better not walk to town alone, even in the daytime.

When I came to Vassar I should have allowed a child to do it.

But I never knew _much_ of the world--never shall--nor will you.


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