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Updated: July 13, 2025
It was not without some faint, excited curiosity that Teen found herself at the door of the house of which Liz had given her the address. It was a one-roomed abode, three stairs up a tall tenement, in one of these dreary and uninteresting streets which are only distinguishable from one another by their names.
Strange that he should thus be goaded against his better impulses to show so harsh a front to the being he passionately loved, unless it was part of the rôle he had mapped out for himself. 'I heard that you had invited Teen Balfour to your estate; is she there yet? he asked; and Gladys did not know whether he asked in scorn or in jest.
The man abode thus a whole month, at the end of which time, having received in all thirty thousand dirhems, he departed by stealth, fearing lest Yehya should take the money from him, because of the greatness of the sum; and when they told Yehya of this, he said, 'By Allah, though he had tarried with me to the end of his days, yet had I not scanted him of my largesse nor cut off from him the bounties of my hospitality! For, indeed, the excellences of the Barmecides were past count nor can their virtues be told; especially those of Yehya teen Khalid, for he abounded in noble qualities, even as saith the poet of him: I asked munificence, "Art free?"
Thus triumphantly for Alva, thus miserably for Orange, ended the campaign. Thus hopelessly vanished the army to which so many proud hopes had attached themselves. Eight thousand teen had been slain in paltry encounters, thirty thousand were dispersed, not easily to be again collected. All the funds which the Prince could command had been wasted without producing a result.
I cannot tell you how I feel about her; I think about her almost continually. 'So dae I, though I think, mind, she's been very shabby to me; but she was my chum, said Teen, with an unusually soft look on her face. 'She didna care a button what she said to a body, but at the same she wad dae onything for ye. 'And you still think she is in London?
'Then what do you mean by saying you have had two or three lovers? queried Gladys, in wonder. 'Oh, weel, I've keepit company wi' a lot. They've walkit me oot, an' ta'en me to the balls an' that that's what I mean. Gladys was rather disappointed, perceiving that it was not likely she would get much help from the experience of Teen.
'You look just as if you had been sitting there continuously since I saw you last, Gladys said involuntarily. 'So I have, maistly, replied Teen dully, 'an' will sit or they cairry me oot. 'Oh, I hope not; indeed, you will not. Have you had a hard summer? 'Middlin'; it's been waur. Five weeks in July I had nae wark; but I've been langer than that in winter, too. In summer it's no' sae bad.
'An' are ye no' awn onything for the lodgin's? queried Teen, who had a singular conscientiousness regarding debt, even of a microscopic kind. 'No; I paid up when I had it. I dinna owe her onything. Teen was silent as she put her long hat-pin through the heavy masses of her hair and pulled her fringe a little lower on her brow; but she thought a great deal.
Having lost the father and older males for the greater portion of the day, the home now loses the children of from seven to the "'teen" years for five or six hours of the day. The mother is left at home with the babies. The family, once living under one roof, now is found scattered; it has reached out into factory and school. Its hours of unified life have been markedly reduced.
Tonight I am pleased to announce that a group of prominent Americans is responding to that challenge by forming an organization that will support grass-roots community efforts all across our country in a national campaign against teen pregnancy. And I challenge all of us and every American to join their efforts. I call on American men and women in families to give greater respect to one another.
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