The Long Day the Story of a New York Working Girl As Told By Herself
The Long Day the Story of a New York Working Girl As Told By Herself
Dorothy Richardson
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She inquired my name, and I repeated the plain, homely Scotch-Irish cognomen that had been handed down to me by my forefathers. " Why don't you get a pretty name ? " she asked, in a matter-of-fact tone. " All the girls do it when they come to the factory to work. It don't cost no more to have a high-sounding name. " Much interested, I protested, half in fun, that I did n't know any name to take, and begged her to suggest one. She was silent for a moment. " Well, last night, " she went on — " la...st night I was reading a story about two girls that was both mashed on the same feller. He was rich and they was poor and worked, and one of them was called ' Rose Fortune. ' " " That 's a very pretty name, " I remarked. 96 THE LONG DAY " Is n't it, though? Rose Fortune — ever so much prettier than your own. Say, why don't you take it, and I '11 begin calling you by it right away. " " And what 's your name. '* " I ventured. "Mine. ? Oh, mine 's Henrietta Manners; only, " she added hastily — " only that 's my real name.
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