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“No doubt she simply echoed what was said to her, but she was nearing her twenty-second birthday, and he wondered at what age ‘nice’ women began to speak for themselves.[…. ] It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman’s eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women…had descended bandaged to the family vault?”