human
I believe you would blame a modern woman who imitated them, said Mrs. Temperley.
gpt
These women have the inestimable advantage of being dead.
human
Ah, yes, Lady Engleton agreed, with a laugh,
gpt
The tides of a hundred years or so sweeping over one's audacious deed, soften the raw edges. Then it is tolerated in the landscape; indeed, it grows mossy and picturesque.
human
And then think how useful it becomes to prove that a daring deed _can_ be done, given only the necessary stuff in brain and heart.
gpt
One can throw it in the teeth of one's contemporaries, added Algitha,
human
Only, said Mrs. Temperley,
gpt
Oh, we shriek less than we used to, said Lady Engleton.
human
It is quite a relief to be able to retain one's respectability on easier terms.
gpt
In such a case as Miss Du Prel depicts? I doubt it. _Caterina_, in real life, would have a lively story to tell. How selfish we should think her! How we should point to the festoons of bleeding hearts that she had wounded--a dripping cordon round the deserted home! No; I believe Miss Du Prel herself would be horrified at her own _Caterina_ if she came upon her unexpectedly in somebody's drawing-room.
human
Of course, a great deal is to be said for the popular way of looking at the matter, Lady Engleton observed.
gpt
This fascinating heroine must have caused a great deal of real sorrow, or at least she _would_ have caused it, were it not that her creator had considerably removed all relatives, except a devoted couple of unorthodox parents, who are charmed at her decision to scandalize society, and wonder why she doesn't do it sooner. Parents like that don't grow on every bush.