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I decided to await your return, and learn whether such a
personal sacrifice of pride would be necessary. Now, I believe I
recognize my duty, and am not afraid to perform it, even in the face of
your displeasure. I am going to deliver the parting scene from the
'Heart of the World,' and I do not imagine my auditors will be any the
worse for hearing it. I certainly regret that the Gayety is an adjunct
to a saloon; I should greatly prefer not to appear there, but,
unfortunately, it is the only place offering me work. I may be
compelled to sink a certain false pride in order to accept, but I shall
certainly not sacrifice one iota of my womanhood. You had no cause
even to intimate such a thing."
"Possibly not; yet had you been my sister I should have said the same."
"Undoubtedly, for you view this matter entirely from the standpoint of
the polite world, from the outlook of social respectability, where self
rules every action with the question, 'What will others say?' So
should I two years ago, but conditions have somewhat changed my views.


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