_] That's it, insult
me,--but I've had enough! I've made up my mind, anyway, to leave your
house and live by myself.
[_Whimpering._
LOUISE. Oh, stop, mamma. You know I didn't mean anything. I'm sorry!
MRS. CARLEY. [_Crying._] No, I'm in the way.
LOUISE. You're not in the way. You know I couldn't live without my
darling pretty little mamma. Please stop crying and kiss me.
[_Puts her arms around her._
MRS. CARLEY. [_Still crying._] I haven't anybody in the world but you.
LOUISE. Don't I know that, don't I know I couldn't get on without you!
There! [_Kisses her._] Now it's all right. Come on, darling, come up and
get your hair dyed.
MRS. CARLEY. [_Pleasantly._] Sh! don't _call_ it that!
LOUISE. I am irritable lately, I know it--but I see without our money
even Steve couldn't get us a decent position. We might just as well face
the truth. Certain people don't appreciate you and me, mamma. We aren't
even acquired tastes.
MRS. CARLEY. No one ever appreciated me long. I was prettier than you
were at your age, and my husbands both fell in love with me at first
sight. But I never wore well.
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