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lL Well,  then,  that’s  what;  I  mean  to

                                       do.  Do  you  know  that,  although  I ’m.

                                       quite  willing  to  he  a  slavey  just  for
                                       now,”  Peggy said  with  a  smile,  “ I  don’t
                                       want  to be one always,  I  would n’t  tell

                                        Mrs,  Bagley  this,  because  she  might

                                       think  I  am  ungrateful.”
                                          i[ I  should  think  so,”  grunted  Rolan-

                                       der,  scowling,  as  he  always  did  when
                                       his  landlady  was  mentioned.

                                          “ Yes,  I ’1]  be  a  self-made  woman”
                                       Peggy  went  on.           She  was  afraid  of

                                       almost every one, but not of Jack  Bolan­
                                       der, — not even when  he  scowled.  “ Do

                                       you  think  it  will  be  very  difficult ?  1
                                       suppose it *s  easier to have  some one else

                                       make you  than  to  make yourself."

                                          11   To  be  self-made  means  an  awful
                                       grind,  Peg*”  said  her  friend  in  such  a

                                       way that  she  broke out, —
                                          '1 Why, you  mean to  be self-made too!
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