The Vicissitudes of Evangeline

· 1943

—Whereas adequate characters are not available, superscript text has been rendered as a^b and a^{bc}. I WONDER so much if it is amusing to be an adventuress, because that is evidently what I shall become now. I read in a book all about it; it is being nice-looking and having nothing to live on, and getting a pleasant time out of life--and I intend to do that! I have certainly nothing to live on, for one cannot count £300 a year--and I am extremely pretty, and I know it quite well, and how to do my hair, and put on my hats, and those things, so, of course, I am an adventuress! I was not intended for this _rôle_--in fact Mrs. Carruthers adopted me on purpose to leave me her fortune, as at tha…

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