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It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young personspending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or amagpie--she should know a great many persons without their recognisingthe acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively--thoughsingularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very muchsmothered--to see any one come in whom she knew outside, as she calledit, any one who could add anything to the meanness of her function.
It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young personspending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or amagpie--she should know a great many persons without their recognisingthe acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively--thoughsingularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very muchsmothered--to see any one come in whom she knew outside, as she calledit, any one who could add anything to the meanness of her function.