DADDY-LONG-LEGS (28)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (28)

That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendelton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott ー oh, my !

   I suppose you're thinking now what a frivolous, shallow little beast she si, and what a waste of money to educate a girl ?

   But, Daddy, if you'd been dressed in checked ginghams all your life, you'd appreaciate how I feel. And when I started to high school, I entered upon another period even worse than the checked ginghams.

   The Poor box.

※poor-box 慈善箱

   You can't know how I dressed appearing in school in those miserable poor-box dresses. 　I was perfectly sure put down in class next to the girl who first owned my dress, and she would whisper and giggle and point it out to others. The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.

※cast-off　clothes  捨てた服

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遅くなりました。すみません。