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The child she was leaving knew little of what was bright and pleasant in this world, and nothing of the next. "Miss Jocelyn," she began hesitatingly. "Don't call me Miss Jocelyn; I'm a working-girl like yourself." "Millie, then, as Belle said?" "Yes." "Millie, do you believe in a heaven?" "Yes." "What is it like?" "I don't know very well.
Just as she reached for it the telephone rang and a hall-boyish voice told her that it was seven o'clock. This was the midnight alarm to Cinderella, and she became again a poor working-girl. She had to abandon her prince and run from the palace of dreams to the studio of toil. She was a trifle surly when she confronted Ferriday.
There had been one long and painful interview between her and her lover soon after his return, and then very gently but very firmly she had told him that the matter must end then and there. She had asked him one question, and only one, in the course of that interview, and he could not answer her: "Mr. Forrest, what welcome would your mother, your sister, extend to me, a working-girl?"
" it went on, sagely, "not so much is known, except that she once worked in a well-known Cleveland society family as a maid and was, before that, a working-girl in Columbus, Ohio. After such a picturesque love-affair in high society, who shall say that romance is dead?" Lester saw this item.
"I'm not the only one present, Don," said the lady, laughing, and turned to her companion. If he had given the second figure a thought as he recognized his old friend, it was to suppose her some working-girl who had conducted the stranger to the place. But now he looked, and saw Helena Forrest. "You!" he breathed, and stood transfixed.
Nothing but my dislike of involving a poor working-girl in further scandal and trouble has held me silent until now." "I see," said the judge-advocate, reflectively; "and you have intimated that in order to spare her further publicity you would be willing to abandon your purpose, provided ?" "Provided Mr.
Floyd had fallen in love with a working-girl, a shop-girl, a nobody, and actually wished his mother and sister to send gushing letters expressive of their approval and assurance of loving welcome. It was preposterous. They had expected a Florence and were told to be content with a Jenny.
The heroine of this strange romance stopped for breath, and if I had cherished any doubts of the truth of her story in the beginning, at least I was sure now that she believed it all herself; one glance into her steady blue eyes, in which a telltale moisture was already gathering, was proof of that. "No, indeed," continued Miss Manners: "I haven't always been a working-girl.
That we should cling so tenaciously to this ideal is to our honor and glory. But fine words butter no parsnips; nor do our fine idealizations serve to reduce the quota which the working-girl ranks contribute to disreputable houses and vicious resorts.
Pett reproachfully. "Let bygones be bygones," said Jimmy. "I was more sinned against than sinning. You know how it is, uncle Pete!" Mr. Pett started violently, but said nothing. "You try out of pure goodness of heart to scatter light and sweetness and protect the poor working-girl like Heaven and brighten up her lot and so on, and she turns right around and soaks it to you good!
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