[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link book
What Diantha Did

CHAPTER II
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And slates didn't cost so much come to think of it, even the red-edged ones, wound with black, that she always wanted.
Board and lodging was put low, at $3.00 per week, but the items had a footnote as to house-rent in the country, and food raised on the farm.
Yes, he guessed that was a full rate for the plain food and bare little bedroom they always had.
"It's what Aunt Esther paid the winter she was here," said Diantha.
Circuses--three...

$1.50 Share in melodeon...

$50.00 Yes, she was one of five to use and enjoy it.
Music lessons...

$30.00 And quite a large margin left here, called miscellaneous, which he smiled to observe made just an even figure, and suspected she had put in for that purpose as well as from generosity.
"This board account looks kind of funny," he said--"only fourteen years of it!" "I didn't take table-board--nor a room--the first year--nor much the second.

I've allowed $1.00 a week for that, and $2.00 for the third--that takes out two, you see.


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