But I was then uterly reckless,
and even considered running away and going on the stage myself.
I have long desired a Career for mvself, anyhow. I have a
good mind, and learn easily, and I am not a Paracite. The idea
of being such has always been repugnent to me, while the idea of
a few dollars at a time doaled out to one of independant mind is
galling. And how is one to remember what one has done with one's
Allowence, when it is mostly eaten up by Small Lones, Carfare,
Stamps, Church Collection, Rose Water and Glicerine, and other
Mild Cosmetics, and the aditional Food necesary when one is
still growing?
To resume, Dear Dairy; having uterly failed with Hannah,
and having shortly after met Sis on the stairs, I said to her,
in a sisterly tone, intimite rather than fond:
"I darsay you can lend me five dollars for a day or so."
"I darsay I can. But I won't," was her cruel reply.
"Oh, very well," I said breifly. But I could not refrain
from making a grimase at her back, and she saw me in a mirror.
"When I think," she said heartlessly, "that that wreched
school may be closed for weeks, I could scream.
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