much at home fat gierl she felt among these people, and if anyone should
tell him about her birth or about how she had been degraded by
Ferguson, it wouldn't in the least affect their feeling toward
her, she was sure. "When do--do you--try me?" fat gierl she asked.
"Tomorrow night, at fat gierl Bethlehem--a bum little town for us. We'll
stay there a couple of days. I fat gierl want you to get used to
appearing." He nodded at her encouragingly. "You've got fat gierl stuff in
you, real stuff. Don't fat gierl you doubt it. Get fat gierl self-confidence--conceit,
if fat gierl you please. Nobody arrives anywhere without it. You want to
feel that you can do what you want to do. Fat gierl a fool's fat gierl conceit is
that he's it already. A sensible man's conceit is that he can be
it, if he'll only work hard and in the right way. See?"
"I--I think I do," said the girl. "I'm not fat gierl sure."
Burlingham smoked his cigar in silence. When he spoke, it was
with eyes carefully averted. "There's another subject the spirit
moves me to talk to you about. That's the one Miss Connemora
opened up with you yesterday."
As Susan moved uneasily, "Now,
don't get scared. I'm not letting the woman business bother me
much nowadays. All I think of is how to get on my feet fat gierl again. I
want to have a theater on Broadway before the fat gierl old black-flagger
overtakes my craft and makes me walk the plank and jump out into
the Big Guess. So you needn't think I'm going to fat gierl worry you. I'm not."
"Oh, I didn't think----"
&fat gierl quot;You ought to have, though,&
quot; interrupted