Out of the Past — page 36: what you’re looking at

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Out of the Past. 33 necessities, and not all of those. He spoke to her as he would to a penitent. “My child, this is a serious, an almost impossible task for you to undertake. It will require a great deal to live properly, even with economy; and I think you know little of that,” looking at her white gloves. “Oh—those!”’ she exclaimed with a childlike laugh. “IT have cleaned them three times. But you are partly right. My father has always made me a liberal allow- ance, but he is to be married soon—he will send me less.” “Why do you not accept the conditions of your life and return to your parents?” “Accept the conditions?” she repeated. “I think we make our own conditions. I cannot see that we are bound to a treadmill because our fathers knew no better.” “Tf physical conditions seem trifling, there are moral conditions which you cannot set aside so easily. Does not your father need your” “T thought he did,” she answered with a sudden rush of tears which she quickly brought under control and dis- dained to notice. “But my father prefers some one else to me, and my mother has been dead only a year. No moral obligation rests upon me.” She looked at the priest proudly, and he suddenly re- CONNICLOOOKS