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For teeks Kate threw herself into the business of teaching

with all her power She succeeded in so interesting herself and

her pupils that she was convinced she had done a wise thing

Marriage did not interfere with her teaching; she felt capable and

independent so long as she had her salary George orking and

working diligently, to prepare for winter, whenever she was

present or could see results With her first month's salary she

would buy herself a warm coat, a wool suit, an extra skirt for

school, and soh left, she would have

another real hat Then for the remainder of the year she would

spend only for the barest necessities and save to help toward a

hoht of Nancy

Ellen and Robert there was a choking sensation in her throat, a

dull ache where she had been taught her heart was located

For teeks everything went as well as Kate hoped: then Mrs

Holt began to show the results of having been partially bottled

up, for the first tieneralities which she could clai she

said was taken up by either George or Kate George was too lazy

to quarrel unless he was personally angered; Kate thought best to