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CHAPTER VIII MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL Same day , 11 o’clock p . m . — Oh , but I am tired ! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to - night . We had a lovely walk . Lucy , after a while , was in gay spirits , owing , I think , to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse , and frightened the wits out of us . I believe we forgot everything except , of course , personal fear , and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start . We had a capital “ severe tea ” at Robin Hood’s Bay in a sweet little old - fashioned inn , with a bow - window right over the seaweed - covered rocks of the strand . I believe we should have shocked the “ New Woman ” with our appetites . Men are more tolerant , bless them ! Then we walked home with some , or rather many , stoppages to rest , and with our hearts full of a constant dread of wild bulls . Lucy was really tired , and we intended to creep off to bed as soon as we could . The young curate came in , however , and Mrs . Westenra asked him to stay for supper . Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller ; I know it was a hard fight on my part , and I am quite heroic . I think that some day the bishops must get together and see about breeding up a new class of curates , who don’t take supper , no matter how they may be pressed to , and who will know when girls are tired . Lucy is asleep and breathing softly . She has more colour in her cheeks than usual , and looks , oh , so sweet . If Mr . Holmwood fell in love with her seeing her only in the drawing - room , I wonder what he would say if he saw her now . Some of the “ New Women ” writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting . But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to accept ; she will do the proposing herself . And a nice job she will make of it , too ! There’s some consolation in that . I am so happy to - night , because dear Lucy seems better . I really believe she has turned the corner , and that we are over her troubles with dreaming . I should be quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan . . . . God bless and keep him .
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