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Chapter 1. The Blake Family Are Discussed
_ CHAPTER I. THE BLAKE FAMILY ARE DISCUSSED
‘There is nothing, sir, too little for so little a creature
as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the
great art of having as little misery and as much happiness
as possible.‘--DR. JOHNSON.
Everyone in Rutherford knew that Mrs. Ross was ruled by her eldest daughter; it was an acknowledged fact, obvious not only to a keen-witted person like Mrs. Charrington, the head-master‘s wife, but even to the minor intelligence of Johnnie Deans, the youngest boy at Woodcote. It was not that Mrs. Ross was a feeble-minded woman; in her own way she was sensible, clear-sighted, with plenty of common-sense; but she was a little disposed to lean on a stronger nature, and even when Geraldine was in the schoolroom, her energy and youthful vigour began to assert themselves, her opinions insensibly influenced her mother‘s, until at last they swayed her entirely.
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