The Archive · 1923

A Reformed Character

Her exhortations were successful. The temperamental writer learned to harness Pegasus successfully and finally became unable to write unless everything about her appearance was fit to pass the inspection of a pernickety C. O. Return of the young man. Re-inspection of authoress which proved satisfactory and we are asked to believe that they lived happily ever after.

(Mayhap. There are many kinds of people in this world. But the tract did not convince me. Rather did it cause me to set a premium upon that "soft disorder' apostrophized by the poet. The reaction was extreme, I am bound to admit, but one is prone to react with thoroughness. Had I not read that bit of propaganda in my impressionable youth I should doubtless have been an approximately tidy person, instead of a—well, really I do not like to call myself names.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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