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Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus

CHAPTER XI
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Are there no street cars or busses we can take?
I like to walk, but not when I have luggage to carry." "We can take a car or an automobile bus if you like," said Grace courteously, although she experienced a vague sense of annoyance at this newcomer's calmly expressed preference.
"Oh, let's take the automobile, if it isn't too expensive!" exclaimed Evelyn eagerly.

"I love to ride in an automobile.

Are there any girls at Overton who own cars?
If there are I shall certainly cultivate them.

I suppose they won't notice me, though, because I am a freshman and a poor one at that," she ended with a pout, her fair face taking on almost sullen lines.
Grace shook her head.
"Being poor doesn't count at Overton," she said, "I know a girl who lived in a bare, cheerless room in an old house in the suburbs of Overton and earned her way by doing mending for the students.

She worked in a dressmaker's shop during her summer vacations too, and yet she was the chum of the richest girl in college." "Why didn't the rich girl help her if she thought so much of her ?" inquired Evelyn rather sarcastically.
"Because the girl wouldn't allow her to do so.


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