Saturday, December 5, 2009

Was occupied. Oh damn. I should go on. Why take chances? But the next shelter might be another half-day's ride away; and she was soaked chilled and freezing. Her cheeks.

A shame she can't have it properly trained. She would certainly become a great singer-- competent critics have told her so. But she is so poor she doesn't think she can ever possibly manage it--unless she can get one of the Cameron scholarships as they are called; and she has very little hope of that although the professor of music who taught her has sent her name in. " "What are the Cameron scholarships?" asked the Old Lady. .
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