DADDY-LONG-LEGS (25)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (25)

And then a few charitable ones would make a point of coming up and saying something polite. I hated evry one of them ー the charitable ones most of all.

    Nobody here knows that I was brought up in an asylum. I told Sallie Mcbride that my mother nad father were dead, and that a kind old gentleman was sending me to college ー which is entirely true so far as it goes. I don't want you to think I am a coward, but I do want to be like the other girls, and that Dreadful Home looming over my childhood is the one great big difference. If I can turn my back on that and shut out the remembrance, I think I might be just as desirable as any other girl. I don't believe there's any real, underneath difference, do you ?

    Anyway, Sallie Mcbride likes me !

                                                   Yours ever,
                                                     JUDY ABBOTT
                                                       (Née Jerusha)


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