` I 'll never make another ; but it will save my dresses from ink-stains , so I 'm glad I 've got it ' ; and the erudite Miss Pierson laboured on , finding it a harder task than any Greek root she ever dug up . ` We paper-stainers must learn how to make shields , or we are lost . I 'll give you a pattern of the pinafore I used to wear in my `` blood-and-thunder days '' , as we call them , ' said Mrs Jo , trying to remember what became of the old tin-kitchen which used to hold her works . ` Speaking of writers reminds me that my ambition is to be a George Eliot , and thrill the world ! It must be so splendid to know that one has such power , and to hear people own that one possesses a `` masculine intellect '' ! I do n't care for most women 's novels , but hers are immense ; do n't you think so , Mrs Bhaer ? ' asked the girl with the big forehead , and torn braid on her skirt . ` Yes ; but they do n't thrill me as little Charlotte Bronte 's books do . The brain is there , but the heart seems left out . I admire , but I do n't love , George Eliot ; and her life is far sadder to me than Miss Bronte 's , because , in spite of the genius , love , and fame , she missed the light without which no soul is truly great , good , or happy . ' ` Yes 'm , I know ; but still it 's so romantic and sort of new and mysterious , and she was great in one sense . Her nerves and dyspepsia do rather destroy the illusion ; but I adore famous people and mean to go and see all I can scare up in London some day . ' ` You will find some of the best of them busy about just the work I recommend to you ; and if you want to see a great lady , I 'll tell you that Mrs Laurence means to bring one here today . Lady Abercrombie is lunching with her , and after seeing the college is to call on us . She especially wanted to see our sewing-school , as she is interested in things of this sort , and gets them up at home . ' ` Bless me ! I always imagined lords and ladies did nothing but ride round in a coach and six , go to balls , and be presented to the Queen in cocked hats , and trains and feathers , ' exclaimed an artless young person from the wilds of Maine , whither an illustrated paper occasionally wandered . ` Not at all ; Lord Abercrombie is over here studying up our American prison system , and my lady is busy with the schools -- both very high-born , but the simplest and most sensible people I 've met this long time . They are neither of them young nor handsome , and dress plainly ; so do n't expect anything splendid . Mr Laurence was telling me last night about a friend of his who met my lord in the hall , and owing to a rough greatcoat and a red face , mistook him for a coachman , and said : `` Now , my man , what do you want here ? ''
Lord XXXXX mildly mentioned who he was , and that he had come to dinner .
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