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Scan 35
The second violin, 1906
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 15. See the scan on archive.org.
1Lanse finds some suitable position, can't we get on? Charlotte can put off the school of design another year. We will all be very economical about clothes——"
3"Being economical doesn't bring in cash to pay bills," interrupted Jeff. "Do the best he can, Lanse won't draw any hair-raising salary the first year. He could probably get clerical work at one of the banks, but what's that? He'd fall off so in his wind I could throw him across the room in three months."
5They all laughed. Jeff's devotion to athletics dominated his ideals at all times, and his disgust at the thought of such a depletion of his brother's physical forces was amusing.
7Celia was still looking at her father. He spoke in the hearty tone to which they were accustomed, his face full of satisfaction.
9"You please me very much, all of you," he said. "It will be the best tonic I can offer your mother. Her greatest trial is this very necessity, which she foresaw the instant the plan was formed—so much sacrifice on the part of her children. Yet she agreed with me that the experience might not be wholly bad for you, and she said"—he paused, smiling at his elder daughter—"that with Celia at the helm she was sure the family ship wouldn't be wrecked."
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