Gaslight Sonatas by Fannie Hurst
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"Harry, you--you're so rough with him." "I'll be rougher yet before I'm through." "He's only a--" "He's rewarding the way you scrimped to pay his expenses for nonsense clubs and societies by asking you to do it another four years. You're getting your thanks now. College! Well, not if the court knows it--" "He's got talent, Harry; his teacher says he--" "So'd your father have talent." "If pa hadn't lost his eye in the Civil War--" "I'm going to put my son's talent where I can see a future for it." "He's ambitious, Harry." "So'm I--to see my son trained to be something besides a looney inventor like his grandfather before him." "It's all I want in life, Harry, to see my two boys of you happy." "It's your woman-ideas I got to blame for this. I want you to stop, Millie, putting rich man's ideas in his head. You hear? I won't stand for it." "Harry, if--if it's the money, maybe I could manage--" |
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