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Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

Jean Webster
Daddy, Long, Important
Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.20, Jester House Publishing

Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

Jean Webster
Beautiful, Disappointment, Character
Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.35, Jester House Publishing

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Jean Webster
Past, Talking, Half

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Jean Webster
Process
Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

Jean Webster
Sarcastic, Communication, Ideas
Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy Long Legs”, p.84, Jean Webster

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

Jean Webster
Children, Growing Up, Unhappy
Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.65, Jester House Publishing

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Jean Webster
Mother, Father, Hair
Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!

Jean Webster
Beautiful, Blue, Class
Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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