`` Go to your room , girl , and take off that rig . There is to be no more play-acting in my house , remember that . '' He flung the book into the fire that was burning in the grate . For the first time in her life Joscelyn flamed out into passionate defiance . `` You are cruel and unjust , Grandfather . I have done no wrong ... it is not doing wrong to develop the one gift I have . It 's the only thing I can do ... and I am going to do it . My mother was an actress and a good woman . So is Aunt Annice . So I mean to be . '' `` Oh , Josie , Josie , '' said her grandmother in a scared voice . Her grandfather only repeated sternly , `` Go , take that rig off , girl , and let us hear no more of this . '' Joscelyn went but she left consternation behind her . Cyrus and Deborah could not have been more shocked if they had discovered the girl robbing her grandfather 's desk . They talked the matter over bitterly at the kitchen hearth that night . `` We have n't been strict enough with the girl , Mother , '' said Cyrus angrily . `` We 'll have to be stricter if we do n't want to have her disgracing us . Did you hear how she defied me ? ` So I mean to be , ' she says . Mother , we 'll have trouble with that girl yet . ''
`` Do n't be too harsh with her , Pa ... it 'll maybe only drive her XXXXX worse , '' sobbed Deborah .
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