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Mother Grace was proud of her daughter with her restless brain in spite of the crudities of her adolescence. Cigarettes and her freedom of speech were not so objectionable as her religious pose, nor indeed as that phase which comes to all youth when they feel that they are misunderstood.
Mother Grace's pride was not that of a mother whose egotism is satisfied that she has produced an intelligent continuation of herself.