Chapter 13

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​‌​‌‌⁠It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as much as ever an effort beyond my strength—offered, in close quarters, difficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a month, and with new aggravations and particular notes, the note above all, sharper and sharper, of the small ironic consciousness on the part of my pupils. It was not, I am as sure today as