I've never yet had a chance to be myself.

Why couldn't they let me be it?
I know--I _know_ that when at last they set me free because they have to--I--I'll act like a fool; I'll not know what to do with my liberty--I'll not know how to use it--how to understand or be understood....

Tell Mr.Tappan that! Tell him that it is all silly and wrong! Tell him that a young girl never forgets when other girls laugh at her because she never had any money, and dresses like a frump, and wears her hair like a baby!...

And if he doesn't listen to us, some day Scott and I will show him and the others how we feel about it! I can make as much trouble as Scott can; I'll do it, too----" "Geraldine!" "Very well.

I'm boiling inside when I think of--some things.