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"I thought you gave sanitary tracts!" said Lady Tyrrell.
"That is quite different."
"I doubt whether the women would see the distinction. A little book
_is_ a tract to them."
"I would abstain rather than let our work get a goody reputation for
indoctrinating sectarianism. It would be all up with us; we might
as well keep a charity school."
"I don't think the women dislike it," said Cecil.
"Most likely they think it the correct thing, the grain which they
must swallow with our benefits; but for that very reason it injures
the whole tone, and prevents them learning independence. Put it in
that light; I know you can."
"I don't think Anne would understand," said Cecil, somewhat
flattered.
"I doubt whether there are three women in the neighbourhood who
would," said Lady Tyrrell.
"People always think charity--how I hate the word!--a means of
forcing their own tenets down the throats of the poor," said Mrs.
Duncombe. "And certainly this neighbourhood is as narrow as any I
ever saw. Nobody but you and--shall I say the present company?--has
any ideas.


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