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We've got to ask our community leaders and all kinds of organizations to help us stop our most serious social problem: the epidemic of teen pregnancies and births where there is no marriage. I have sent to Congress a plan to target schools all over this country with anti-pregnancy programs that work. But government can only do so much.
It is splendid here to-day. Stand still, Firefly, you impatient animal; we are not ready to go yet. 'I wad be feared to live in that hoose, said Teen. 'The waves micht come up in the nicht an' wash it away. Jist look at that yin the noo. A great green wave, with its angry crest of foam, came rolling in with apparently resistless force, and spent itself on the pebbly shore with a sullen roar.
Gladys only vaguely understood, but gathered that she was censuring the old man with the utmost severity. 'Oh, I don't think he is as rich as people say, and he is very kind to me, said she quickly. 'If he had not taken me when my father died, I don't know what would have become of me. 'Imphm! The tea's bilin', Teen. Look in my goon pocket for a penny, an' rin doon for twa cookies.
Teen looked reproachfully at her friend, wondering to see her so undemonstrative, never even uttering a single word of thanks for the kindness so freely offered. She shook hands with Gladys in silence, and allowed her to depart without further remark. 'You'll make sure that she comes down, Teen? said Gladys, when they were outside the door. 'Poor thing, she looks dreadfully ill and unhappy.
During his own last dance with her he had been almost savagely silent; only by a great effort restraining his tongue from mordant allusions to that 'prancing, red-haired fellow, as he secretly called the champion of lost causes. In fact, his sensations there and since had been a revelation, or would have teen if he could have stood apart to see them.
Teen waited breathlessly, in the hope that Liz would still confide in her, but having thus delivered herself, she again relapsed into silence. 'What way are ye bidin' at Maryhill? she asked after a bit, and the same note of suspicion which had been in Walter's questions sounded through her voice. It made the colour rise in the sharply-outlined cheek of Liz, and she replied angrily,
'But maybe my day'll come, an' if it does, I winna forget, she said, more to herself than to her companion; then, catching sight of Teen's astonished face, she broke into a laugh, and said, in quite a different tone, 'Weel, is't the morn we're gaun among the swells? An' hoo d'ye pit in the time in the country? 'Ye'll see, replied Teen, with quiet satisfaction.
Do you remember that night long ago when Lizzie Hepburn and you took me to the Ariel Music Hall? 'Yes, I mind it fine. I was thinkin' o't no' a meenit syne. 'Well, don't you think that the girls we saw there might have some place a little pleasanter and safer for them to be in than a music hall? 'Yes, answered Teen, with unwonted seriousness. 'It's no' a guid place.
Mingling with her intense sorrow over Liz was another and, if possible, a more painful fear lest this deviation from the paths of rectitude might be fraught with painful consequences to the gentle girl whom Teen had learned to love with a love which had in it the elements of worship.
In this teapot a black decoction brewed all day, and was partaken of at intervals by the two; sometimes they ate a morsel of bread to it, but other sustenance they had none. Little wonder the face of Teen was as cadaverous as the grave.
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