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can trust Dick He's too fine hi but

fineness She ht she has with

fate"

"Attracted by character! Pins and figs! My son is just like all the

others, I a He's attracted by pink flesh And as for heart

and soul--all the women that Dick has knoell have been woranted, as a part of

wo you andto

do with it"

For the moment Madeline had no answer, and Mrs Percival went on: "It's foolish to care what people say about your tragedies Oh, you

needn't shake your head This is a tragedy, Madeline And I do care

about the world I hate to think of the whispering and gossiping because

my son--my son--has fallen a victim to a cheap adventuress"

"Nonsense," Madeline broke out "Miss Quincy isn't an outcast, just

because she has had the world's cold shoulder And people aren't so

silly as to let such external things prejudice the exception to the girl because

she works We're all--those of us that are good for hters of men ork, and we share in their labor I

could admire and love a real worker, but this butterfly creature affects

ive It's just

because I feel that she isn't a real worker that I am afraid of her"