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Title: The life of Alice Freeman Palmer
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933
Subjects: Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ange. Henceforth we perform them infreedom, conscious that we too are persons of im-portance and have duties to ourselves as well. Otherpeople are now discovered to be selves also, and theadjustment of us to them becomes a puzzling prob-lem. The period when this self-consciousness beginsto make itself felt is usually an awkward one. Theearly spontaneous charm has disappeared, whilepersonal dignity has not yet arisen. Jarrings andantagonisms are ordinary indications that such aperiod is approaching. That one so sympathetic as Alice Freeman wouldbe saved from the worst of such clashes may easilybe guessed. I can learn of few of the self-assertionsand aberrations which usually appear in this epoch-making transition. She had a will of her own, wasliable to anger, and easily resented personal annoy-ance. But her consciousness of much beside herselfsteadied her. Even in parting from the family shetook the family with her. Once at evening prayersa large June-bug buzzed through the window and
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^ ^ o >H >H & OJ w « ^ h3 O < ^ ^ 03 ^ <u at m ci GIRLHOOD 33 settled in a curl of her hair. He would not be de-tached. She kept herself quiet through the severalminutes of prayer; then, as all rose from their knees,she cried out, I wanted to scream, but I could ntupset you and God. Of course not, said herfather, gravely dislodging the creature. For a goodwhile bursts of passion broke out when her will wascrossed. She would throw herself down and beat thefloor with her heels. But when one day she saw herbrother in a similar paroxysm, she examined himwith horror and at bedtime told her mother that sheshould never be angry again. Fred mustnt be.And though through after life rage at wrong oftenboiled below the surface and came to an occasionalexplosion, it was soon controlled, and rarely partedher from him who occasioned it. Yet however considerately the transition wasmanaged, childhood, the period

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