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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!