You can choose your own way and walk in it . '' With this dictum Joscelyn went from Spring Valley . She clung to Deborah and wept at parting , but Cyrus did not even say goodbye to her . On the morning of her departure he went away on business and did not return until evening . * * * * * Joscelyn went on the stage . Her aunt 's influence and her mother 's fame helped her much . She missed the hard experiences that come to the unassisted beginner . But her own genius must have won in any case . She had all her mother 's gifts , deepened by her inheritance of Morgan intensity and sincerity ... much , too , of the Morgan firmness of will . When Joscelyn Morgan was twenty-two she was famous over two continents . When Cyrus Morgan returned home on the evening after his granddaughter 's departure he told his wife that she was never to mention the girl 's name in his hearing again . Deborah obeyed . She thought her husband was right , albeit she might in her own heart deplore the necessity of such a decree . Joscelyn had disgraced them ; could that be forgiven ? Nevertheless both the old people missed her terribly . The house seemed to have lost its soul with that vivid , ripely tinted young life . They got their married daughter 's oldest girl , Pauline , to come and stay with them . Pauline was a quiet , docile maiden , industrious and commonplace -- just such a girl as they had vainly striven to make of Joscelyn , to whom Pauline had always been held up as a model . Yet neither Cyrus nor Deborah took to her , and they let her go unregretfully when they found that she wished to return home . `` She has n't any of Josie 's gimp , '' was old Cyrus 's unspoken fault .
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