B1039 <=> B1041 (BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1040)

“In short, at such moments as these, in the beings there, especially in one so young as Elizabeth, finding themselves, after a long period of oppressive existence in a suffocating city, in the midst of such a rich abundance of all kinds of unaccustomed impressions, the mental associations evoked from a natural being-joy would naturally arise of themselves from every external thing perceived.

“Elizabeth must have felt this especially strongly, having lived, as I have already said, before the institute, on her father’s large estate which lay far from the already exceedingly abnormal conditions of city vanities.

“Thanks to this, every impression newly perceived by her would naturally call up previous childhood memories, each connected in its turn with various other pleasant incidents.

“So it is not difficult to picture to yourself that the sudden appearance of that quadruped animal called ‘bull,’ such as she had seen at home on the farm and which had enjoyed there the affection of all the children, who secretly even took it bread from the table, was to this as yet unformed impressionable young girl a shock for the corresponding associations under the influence of which, she, being full of a feeling of sincere happiness still unspoiled by the abnormally established conditions of being-existence, instantly wished to share her happiness with her bosom friend who was some distance off, and shouted to her to look at that dear bull.

“Now I ask you, how should she have called this quadruped being, since it actually was a bull?

“Really, ‘beefsteak’? – as advised by the ‘esteemed’ headmistress of this ‘esteemed higher educational institution,’ which existed there specially for the ‘education of children’ according to the barbarous system of theirs existing there to their misfortune also at the present time.