Excerpt: ...in her heart, for she had caught sight of Dr. Cautley in the distance. He was coming round the corner of one of the intersecting walks, coming at a frantic pace, with the tails of his frock-coat waving in the wind. He pulled himself up as he neared her and held out a friendly hand. "That's right, Miss Quincey. I'm delighted to see you out. You really are getting strong again, aren't you?" "Yes, thank you-very well, very strong." Was it her fancy, or did his manner imply that he wanted to sink that humiliating ...
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Excerpt: ...in her heart, for she had caught sight of Dr. Cautley in the distance. He was coming round the corner of one of the intersecting walks, coming at a frantic pace, with the tails of his frock-coat waving in the wind. He pulled himself up as he neared her and held out a friendly hand. "That's right, Miss Quincey. I'm delighted to see you out. You really are getting strong again, aren't you?" "Yes, thank you-very well, very strong." Was it her fancy, or did his manner imply that he wanted to sink that humiliating episode of the tea-party and begin again where they had left off? It might be so; his courtesy was so infinitely subtle. He had actually turned and was walking her way now. "And how is Sordello?" he asked, the tone of his inquiry suggesting that there was something seriously the matter with Sordello. "Getting on. Only fifty-six pages more." "You are advancing, Miss Quincey-gaining on him by leaps and bounds. You're not overdoing it, I hope?" "Oh no, I read a little in the evenings-I have to keep up to the standard of the staff. Indeed," she added, turning with a sudden suicidal panic, "I ought to be at home and working now." "What? On a half-holiday? It is a half-holiday?" "For some people-not for me." His eyes-she could not be mistaken-were taking her in as they had done before. "And why not for you? Do you know, you're looking horribly tired. Suppose we sit down a bit." Miss Quincey admitted that it would be very nice. "Hadn't you better put your cape on-the wind's changing." She obeyed him. "That's hardly a thick enough wrap for this weather, is it?" She assured him it was very warm, very comfortable. "Do you know what I would like to do with you, Miss Quincey?" "No." "I should like to pack you off somewhere-anywhere-for another three months' holiday." "Another three months! What would my pupils do, and what would Miss Cursiter say?" It was part of the illusion that she conceived herself to be indispensable to Miss Cursiter....
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Good+ Book First US edition. Henry Holt 1906. Good plus red cloth hardcover. Wear to spine head, small store plate to corner of rear endpaper. Author, poet, critic, and suffragist Mary Amelia St. Clair was a contemporary of and acquainted with Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West, among others. She served as an ambulance driver in World War I, and produced poetry and fiction based on it. "Superseded" takes place in a girl's school whose headmistress, Miss Cursiter, is a formidable and not entirely likeable woman with "an intelligence fervent with the fire of the enthusiast, cold with the renunciate's frost." Miss Cursiter wishes to improve education, and advocates her students spend their evenings studying great literature, but charts a course not all of her charges are fit to follow. As a character puts it, "Your precious system...sets up the same absurd standard for every woman, the brilliant genius and the average imbecile, " with results that lead to tragedy. The "New York Sun" said of "Superseded, " "Makes one wonder if in future years the quiet little English woman might be recognized as a new Jane Austen." "Publisher's Note: Miss Sinclair has expressed a desire to have this book republished in America, because she considers it the best of her work previous to 'The Divine Fire. ' It originally appeared with another work in a volume entitled 'Two Sides of a Question, ' a small imported edition of which is now exhausted."
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