She began to feel like a girl instead of foundling
1st summer:
They had 6 calves(телят) and Judy chose names for them:
1) Sylvia, because she was born in the woods.
2) Lesbia, after Lesbia in Catullus.
3) Sallie
4) Julia – a spotted, nondescript(неопрятного вида) animal.
5) Judy, after her.
6) Daddy-Long-Legs, because he looked appropriate the name.
She hadn’t started her immortal novel yet. The farm kept her too busy.
She recommended Lock Willow as a health resort.
Six Judy’s dresses: an evening dress pink mull over silk(паутинка); a blue church dress; a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming(отделка)(made her look like a Gipsy(цыганка)); a dress of rose-coloured challis; a grey street suit; an every-day dress for classes.
Miss Pritchard had picked them out.
She liked her dresses because for her they were much better than checked ginghams which she had to wear in the asylum.
2nd study year:
She became a Sophomore. She was glad to see the campus again. It was a pleasant sensation to come back to something familiar. She was beginning to felt at home in college and in command of the situation.
She was rooming with Sallie and Julia. Judy thought the Pendletons to be naturally conservative and inimical(враждебны).
Sallie was running for class president.
New subjects:
1) Chemistry
2) Argumentation and logic
3) History of the whole world
4) Plays of William Shakespeare
5) French, which she had to choose to pass the summer exam (she would rather prefer economics)
Sallie had been elected. Sallie had invited Judy to spend the Christmas vacation with her. She lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. Judy would love to go as she had never been in a private family.
She played in Thanksgiving theatrical. She was a prince in a tower with a velvet tunic and yellow curls.
Life in the McBride household is very absorbing.
McBrides’ house: a big old-fashioned brick house with white trimmings set back from the street – exactly the kind of house that she had used to look at so curiosity when she was in the JGH and wondered what it could be inside. Everything was so comfortable and restful and homelike; she walked from room to room and drank in the furnishing.
It was the most perfect house for children to brought up in; with shadow nooks(укромными уголками) for hide and seek, and open fireplaces for popcorn, and an attic to romp in on rainy days, and slippery banisters with a comfortable flat, sunny cook who has lived in the family thirteen years. ‘Just the sight of such a house makes you want to be a child all over again.
Sallie’s family: Judy had never dreamed they could be so nice. Sallie had a father and a mother and grandmother, and the sweetest three-year-old baby sister all over curls, and a medium-sized brother who always forgot to wipe his feet, and a big, good-looking brother named Jimmie, who was a Junior at Princeton.
We had the jolliest time at the table.
Mr McBride owned a factory and Christmas Eve he had had a tree for employees’ children. It had been in the long packing-room. Jimmie was dressed as Santa Claus, and Sallie and Judy had helped him distribute the presents. Judy felt as benevolent as a Trustee of the JGH.
2 days after Xmas McBrides gave a dance for her. It was her really true ball. She had a new white evening gown (Daddy’s Xmas present) and long white gloves and white satin slippers.
Two ways of learning:
1) The test of true scholarship is a painstaking passion for detail – Chemistry Professor
2) Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective to get a perspective of the whole – History Professor. Judy liked this idea.
They had had a paper chase(охота).
She had passed her exams with the utmost(высочайшей) ease.
She was reading ‘Hamlet’ and found it perfectly corking(замечательный).
She had a beautiful play that she had invented a long time ago when she first learnt to read. She put herself to sleep every night by pretending she was the most important person in the book she was reading at the moment.
At that time she was Ophelia.
She won the short-story contest (a 25$ prize) that the Monthly held every year.
She had been chosen for the spring dramatics – ‘As You Like It’ out of doors. She was going to be Celia, own cousin to Rosalind.
Julia, Sallie and Judy were going to New York future Friday to do some spring shopping and stay all night and go to the theatre on ‘Hamlet’ the future day with Jervis. He had invited them.
New York is big. She found streets, people, shops entertaining. She liked lovely things in the windows. ‘It makes you want to devote your life to wearing clothes’.
They went shopping and entered a wonderful shop, where Julia bought two loveliest hats.
‘I can’t imagine any joy in life greater than sitting down in front of a mirror and buying any hat you choose without having first to consider the price’. ’New York would rapidly undermine(разрушит) this fine, stoical character which the JGH so patiently built up’.
Then she went to the theatre and it was dazzling, marvelous, unbelievable.
It was a dizzying experience for Judy to pass 18 years in the JGH and then suddenly to be pluged(быть погруженным) into the WORLD. She was getting acclimated.
She had received Daddy’s cheque for 50$ on hats. She thanked him but had to send it back. ‘I would rather not accept any more charity than she had to’.
They had Field day. Judy won the 50-yard sprint (8 seconds). It was great fun.
Judy was reading ‘Jane Eyre’, it was melodrama of the purest, but she read and read it. There was something about Brontës that fascinated Judy. Their books, their lives, their spirit.
She thought that the mast necessary quality for any person to have was imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people’s places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children. But the JGH instantly stamped out(подавлял) the slightest flicker(проявление) that appear. Duty was the only quality that was encouraged.