[…] out came the candle from its deal receptacle, and the Amelias, Janes and Carolines, betook themselves to cakes and novels, devouring both with an ardour that only schoolgirlism can produce.
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Schoolgirlism
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These things should have something of the positive underneath, or they degenerate into conventionality and schoolgirlism.
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