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copyright\"guarantees that \"The Young Visiters\"isthe unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years.\"Effort,\"however,is an absurd word to use,as you may see by studying thetriumphant countenance of the child herself,which is here reproducedas frontispiece to her sublime work.This is no portrait of a writerwho had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentaryevidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six):it hasan air of careless power;there is a complacency about it that by thesevere might perhaps be called smugness.It needed no effort for thatface to knock off a masterpiece.It probably represents precisely howshe looked when she finished a chapter.When she was actually at workI think the expression was more solemn,with the tongue firmly  \nclenched between the teeth;an unholy rapture showing as she drew nearher love chapter.Fellow-craftsmen will see that she is lookingforward to this chapter all the time.  \nThe manuscript is in pencil in a stout little note book (twopence),andthere it has lain for years,for though the authoress was nine whenshe wrote it she is now a grown woman.It has lain,in lavender as itwere,in the dumpy note book,waiting for a publisher to ride that wayand rescue it;and here he is at last,not a bit afraid that  \nto this age it may appear \"Victorian.\"Indeed if its pictures of HighLife are accurate (as we cannot doubt,the authoress seems always so  \nsure of her facts)they had a way of going on in those times which isreally surprising.Even the grand historical figures were free andeasy,such as King Edward,of whom we have perhaps the most humanpicture ever penned,as he appears at a levée \"rather sumshiously,\"ina \"small but costly crown,\"and afterwards slips away to tuckinto ices.It would seem in particular that we are oddly wrong in ouridea of the young Victorian lady as a person more shy and shrinking thanthe girl of to-day.The Ethel of this story is a fascinating creaturewho would have a good time wherever there were a few males,but nolonger could she voyage through life quite so jollily without  \nattracting the attention of the censorious.Chaperon seems to be oneof the very few good words of which our authoress had never heard.  \nThe lady she had grown into,the \"owner of the copyright\"alreadyreferred to,gives me a few particulars of this child she used to be,and is evidently a little scared by her.We should probably all be alittle scared (though proud)if that portrait was dumped down in frontof us as ours,and we were asked to explain why we once thought somuch of ourselves as that.  \nExcept for the smirk on her face,all I can learn of her now is thatshe was one of a small family who lived in the country,inventedtheir own games,dodged the governess and let the rest of the world gohang.She read everything that came her way,including,as the contextamply proves,the grown-up novels of the period.\"I adored writing andused to pray for bad weather,so that I need not go out but could stay  \nin and write.\"Her mother used to have early tea in bed;sometimesvisitors came to the house,when there was talk of events in highsociety:there was mention of places called Hampton Court,the GaietyTheatre and the \"Crystale\"Palace.This is almost all that is nowremembered,but it was enough for the blazing child.She sucked herthumb for a moment (this is guesswork),and sat down to her amazingtale.  \n\"Her mother used to have early tea in bed.\"Many authors must have hada similar experience,but they all missed the possibilities of it  \nuntil this young woman came along.It thrilled her;and tea in bed at last takes itsproper place in fiction.\"Mr Salteena woke  \nup rarther early next day and was delighted to find Horace the footmanentering with a cup of tea.Oh thank you my man said Mr Salteenarolling over in the costly bed.Mr Clark is nearly out of the ba","cbCaia0b0k8ZgJHV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia0b0k8ZgJHV","pdf",2845906,82,"English","# SIR ANGELS\n## The Young 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