Mother , we 'll have trouble with that girl yet . '' `` Do n't be too harsh with her , Pa ... it 'll maybe only drive her to worse , '' sobbed Deborah . `` I ai n't going to be harsh . What I do is for her own good , you know that , Mother . Josie is as dear to me as she is to you , but we 've got to be stricter with her . '' They were . From that day Josie was watched and distrusted . She was never permitted to be alone . There were no more solitary walks . She felt herself under the surveillance of cold , unsympathetic eyes every moment and her very soul writhed . Joscelyn Morgan , the high-spirited daughter of high-spirited parents , could not long submit to such treatment . It might have passed with a child ; to a woman , thrilling with life and conscious power to her very fingertips , it was galling beyond measure . Joscelyn rebelled , but she did nothing secretly ... that was not her nature . She wrote to her Aunt Annice , and when she received her reply she went straight and fearlessly to her grandparents with it . `` Grandfather , this letter is from my aunt . She wishes me to go and live with her and prepare for the stage . I told her I wished to do so . I am going . '' Cyrus and Deborah looked at her in mute dismay . `` I know you despise the profession of an actress , '' the girl went on with heightened colour .
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