The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey
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"Don't I give you money enough?"
"Of course. But this is different." "How different?" "It is my own. Don't you see?" Being a man he did not see, but Miss Emily did. "Any work that is worth doing at all is worth being paid for. You know that, Doctor." He did know it, but he didn't like to have a woman tell him. "She doesn't need the money." "I do. I am giving it to the Red Cross. Please don't be stuffy about it, Daddy." "Am I stuffy?" "Yes." He tried to redeem himself by a rather tardy enthusiasm and succeeded. Jean brought out more Lovely Dreams, until a grotesque procession stretched across the room. "Tomorrow," she announced, triumphantly, "we'll put them in the window, and you'll see the children coming." As she carried them away, Doctor McKenzie said to Emily, "It seems strange that she should want to do it." |
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