Chapter 5
"Mother, Mother, I am so happy!" whispered the girl, burying her fa the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turo the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room tained. "I am so happy!" she repeated, "and you must be happy, too!"
Mrs. Vane winced and put her thin, bismuth-whitened hands on her daughters head. "Happy!" she echoed, "I am only happy, Sibyl, when I see you act. You must not think of anything but your ag. Mr. Isaacs has been very good to us, and we owe him money."
The girl looked up and pouted. "Money, Mother?" she cried, "what does money matter? Love is more than money."
"Mr. Isaacs has advanced us fifty pounds to pay off our debts and to get a proper outfit for James. You must not fet that, Sibyl. Fifty pounds is a very large sum. Mr. Isaacs has been most siderate."
"He is not a gentleman, Mother, and I hate the way he talks to me," said the girl, rising to her feet and ……（内容加载失败！）
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