She did not dream of the real
meaning of her content with her voice as it was, of
her lack of uneasiness over the appalling fact that such
voice as she had was unreliable, came and went for no
apparent reason.
``Absolute rest for two months,'' declared Jennings
grimly. ``Not a note until I return in August.''
Mildred gave a resigned sigh.
There is much inveighing against hypocrisy, a vice
unsightly rather than desperately wicked. And in the
excitement about it its dangerous, even deadly near
kinsman, self-deception, escapes unassailed. Seven
cardinal sins; but what of the eighth?--the parent of
all the others, the one beside which the children seem
almost white?
During the first few weeks Mildred had been careful
about spending money. Economy she did not understand;
how could she, when she had never had a lesson
in it or a valuable hint about it? So economy was
impossible. The only way in which such people can
keep order in their finances is by not spending any
money at all. Mildred drew nothing, spent nothing.
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