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 . Deborah spoke , but all she said was , `` Polly 's a good girl , Father , only she has n't any snap . '' Joscelyn wrote to Deborah occasionally , telling her freely of her plans and doings . If it hurt the girl that no notice was ever taken of her letters she still wrote them . Deborah read the letters grimly and then left them in Cyrus 's way . Cyrus would not read them at first ; later on he read them stealthily when Deborah was out of the house . When Joscelyn began to succeed she sent to the old farmhouse papers and magazines containing her photographs and criticisms of her plays and acting . Deborah cut them out and kept them in her upper bureau drawer with Joscelyn 's letters . Once she overlooked one and Cyrus found it when he was kindling the fire . He got the scissors and cut it out carefully . A month later Deborah discovered it between the leaves of the family Bible . But Joscelyn 's name was never mentioned between them , and when other people asked them concerning her their replies were cold and ungracious . In a way they had relented towards her , but their shame of her remained . They could never forget that she was an actress . Once , six years after Joscelyn had left Spring Valley , Cyrus , who was reading a paper by the table , got up with an angry exclamation and stuffed it into the stove , thumping the lid on over it with grim malignity . `` That fool dunno what he 's talking about , '' was all he would say . Deborah had her share of curiosity . The paper was the National Gazette and she knew that their next-door neighbour , James Pennan , took it .
She went over XXXXX evening and borrowed it , saying that their own had been burned before she had had time to read the serial in it .
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