[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 1 13/59
Now--if I were poor I'd go on the stage. CECELIA: Yes, you might as well get paid for the amount of acting you do. ROSALIND: Sometimes when I've felt particularly radiant I've thought, why should this be wasted on one man? CECELIA: Often when you're particularly sulky, I've wondered why it should all be wasted on just one family.
(Getting up.) I think I'll go down and meet Mr.Amory Blaine.
I like temperamental men. ROSALIND: There aren't any.
Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy--and the ones that do, go to pieces. CECELIA: Well, I'm glad I don't have all your worries.
I'm engaged. ROSALIND: (With a scornful smile) Engaged? Why, you little lunatic! If mother heard you talking like that she'd send you off to boarding-school, where you belong. CECELIA: You won't tell her, though, because I know things I could tell--and you're too selfish! ROSALIND: (A little annoyed) Run along, little girl! Who are you engaged to, the iceman? the man that keeps the candy-store? CECELIA: Cheap wit--good-by, darling, I'll see you later. ROSALIND: Oh, be _sure_ and do that--you're such a help. (Exit CECELIA.
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