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He was simply the average man of small intelligence, great vanity, and abject snobbishness or terror of public opinion. There could be but one reason for the flight of Lorella's daughter rottenness. The only point to consider now was how to save the imperiled family standing, how to protect his own daughter, whom his good nature and his wife's weakness had thus endangered.
The apparition in the doorway was commonplace the mistress of the house, Lorella's elder and married sister Fanny neither fair nor dark, neither tall nor short, neither thin nor fat, neither pretty nor homely, neither stupid nor bright, neither neat nor dowdy one of that multitude of excellent, unobtrusive human beings who make the restful stretches in a world of agitations and who respond to the impetus of circumstance as unresistingly as cloud to wind.
"I've made up my mind to keep her." "It isn't fair to Ruth." "Send it away where?" "Anywhere. Get it adopted in Chicago Cincinnati Louisville." "Lorella's baby?" "When she and Ruth grow up what then?" "People ain't so low as some think." "'The sins of the parents are visited on the children unto " "I don't care," interrupted Fanny. "I love her. I'm going to keep her. Wait here a minute."
"If it'd been a boy, perhaps it might have got along. But a girl "There's nothing can be done to make things right for a girl that's got no father and no name." The subject did not come up between him and his wife until about a week after Lorella's funeral. But he was thinking of nothing else.
When Fanny, unable longer to conceal Lorella's plight, had told him, pity and affection for his sweet sister-in-law who had made her home with them for five years had triumphed over his principles. He had himself arranged for Fanny to hide Lorella in New York until she could safely return. But just as the sisters were about to set out, Lorella, low in body and in mind, fell ill.
She shook her head drearily, sighed. "What's the use? Lorella's gone. And this morning General Galt came down to see my husband with a letter he'd got from Jimmie. Jimmie denies it. Perhaps so. Again, perhaps the General wrote him to write that, and threatened him if he didn't. But what's the use? We'll never know." And they never did.
You must learn to appreciate that you're not a sheltered woman, with reputation for virtue as your one asset, the thing that'll enable you to get some man to undertake your support. You are dealing with the world as a man deals with it. You must demand and insist that the world deal with you on that basis." There came a wonderful look of courage and hope into the eyes of Lorella's daughter.
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