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CHAPTER VIII
Admired and courted though she was, Marie Grubbe
soon found that, while she had escaped from the
nursery, she was not fully admitted to the circles of the grown
up. For all the flatteries lavished on them, such young
maidens were kept in their own place in society. They were
made to feel it by a hundred trifles that in themselves meant
nothing, but when taken together meant a great deal. First
of all, the children were insufferably familiar, quite like
their equals. And then the servants—there was a
well-defined difference in the manner of the old footman when
he took the cloak of a maid or a matron, and the faintest
shade in the obliging smile of the chambermaid showed her
sense of whether she was waiting on a married or an
unmarried woman. The free-and-easy tone which the
half-grown younkers permitted themselves was most
unpleasant, and the way in which snubbings and icy looks simply
slid off from them was enough to make one despair.
She liked best the society of the younger men, for even
when they were not in love with her, they would show her
the most delicate attention and say the prettiest things with
a courtly deference that quite raised her in her own
estimation,—though to be sure it was tiresome when she found
that they did it chiefly to keep in practice. Some of the
older gentlemen were simply intolerable with their fulsome
compliments and their mock gallantry, but the married
women were worst of all, especially the brides. The
encouraging, though a bit preoccupied glance, the slight
condescending nod with head to one side, and the smile—half
pitying, half jeering—with which they would listen
to her—it was insulting! Moreover, the conduct of the
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