A woman capable of willing her own life.
A woman not afraid of thought and reason, a lover of wisdom. I
have talked much with her at one time or another, and I have found
her grasp my meaning with a quickness of perception quite unusual
in my experience; and the arguments I have let fall, I am
convinced, have borne excellent fruit. I look forward to her
becoming, at no very distant date, a valued member of our little
band. Indeed, without betraying confidence, I may almost say I
regard her conversion as an accomplished fact."
Colonel Maxim always spoke of her as "a fair pillar of the State."
"With the enemy in our midst," said the florid old soldier, "it
behoves every true man--aye, and every true woman--to rally to the
defence of the country; and all honour, say I, to noble ladies such
as Mrs. Clifton Courtenay, who, laying aside their natural
shrinking from publicity, come forward in such a crisis as the
present to combat the forces of disorder and disloyalty now rampant
in the land."
"But," some listener would suggest, "I gathered from young Jocelyn
that Mrs. Clifton Courtenay held somewhat advanced views on social
and political questions.
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