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There I lived with the creatures of my dreams, and forgot for a while that I was only a Sub-Deb, and that Leila's last year's tennis clothes were being fixed over for me. But how true what dear Shakspeare says: dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain. Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. I loved my dreams, but alas, they were not enough.
"I don't understand you." "For Harold. You know, Bab, I think I could bear up better if his name wasn't Harold." "I don't see how it concerns you," I responded. "Don't you? With me crazy about you for lo, these many years! First as a baby, then as a sub-sub-deb, and now as a sub-deb. Next year, when you are a real Debutante " "You've concealed your infatuation bravely."
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The young lady at the left has just returned from the hunting field hand-in-hand with the dashing "lead," who happens to be an eligible billionaire. Her hostess, the mother of the sub-deb at the right, has greeted her by hissing, "S o o! I see you've had a good day's hunting!"
She was not far from the worshiping sub-deb in her sighing, "How did you get the scar?" "That? Oh, nothing." "Please tell me." "Really and truly. Nothing at all. Just a drunken fellow with a knife, playing the fool. I didn't have to touch him quite sure he could have given me a frightful beating and all that sort of thing. It was the Big Chief who got rid of him." "He cut you? With a kniiiiiife?
"It isn't a privilege a bit," she said defiantly, out of a clear sky. "It isn't half as much fun as being the kind of girl everybody else is. Poor Mrs. Harmsworth-Jones! She hadn't done a thing. Her own girls went to fashionable schools and attended sub-deb dances by the score until they came out, which they did at eighteen each like clockwork.
Is it fair also, I ask, that in the best society, a girl is a Sub-Deb the year before she comes out, and although mature in mind, and even maturer in many ways than her older sister, the latter is treated as a young lady, enjoying many privileges, while the former is treated as a mere child, in spite, as I have observed, of only 20 months difference?
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