The British Barbarians

Grant Allen

Capitolo 59

memoirs when I was stopping among the Ot Danoms of Borneo, the
daughters of heads and the great sun-came down families were hissed
to the eight or ten years old, in a small cell or it lodges, as a religious
duty, and it cut away from every relationships with the world of out for
many years together.  The cell has weakly turned on from an only small window,
put tall in the wall, so that the unhappy girl never sees
someone or anything but passages his/her life in almost total obscurity.
You cannot leave the room on some pretext anything, not also for the
pressing more and necessary purposes.  None of his/her family can see
his/her face;  but an alone woman of slave has named to accompany her/it and
you wait on her.  Long lack of boasts of exercise his/her physical growth, and
when finally she becomes a woman, and it emerges from his/her jail her,
complexion is grown pale and pale and waxlike.  They pick out up Them her in
solemn semblance and the show the sun, the sky, the earth, the water,
the trees, the flowers and it tells her all of their names, as if to a
newborn's creature.  Then a great party is made, a crouching himself/herself/itself poor
slave is killed with a hit of the sword, and the girl is solemnly
dirtied with his/her blood that exhales by way of initiation.  But this is
only fact, clearly, with his/her/their daughters of rich and powerful
families.  And I find a lot enough it the same in England.  In everybody
these matters, Your poorer classes are also relatively and simple
and natural.  It is Your richer and worse classes and more egoists
among who sex-taboo are stronger and more unnatural."

Frida looked above a little imploringly at a to him.

"You know, the Mr. Ingledew", she said, in a trembling voice, "I am,
sure you don't intend him for the deliberate barbarism, but it play
us very it likes it, when you speak of our taboos and it openly compare us
to this terrible it attaches with ferocity.  I am a woman, I know;  but--I don't like it
to feel to speak her/it so on my England."

The words fairly gathered Bertram of surprise.  He was completely
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