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Title: Red Hair

Author: Elinor Glyn

Release Date: February 22, 2006 [EBook #17821]

Language: English

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The Authors' Press Series
of the Works of
Elinor Glyn

RED HAIR

THE AUTHORS' PRESS, PUBLISHERS
AUBURN, N. Y.

Copyright, 1905, by
ELINOR GLYN

When copyrighted by Elinor Glyn in 1905,
this book was published under the title
"The Vicissitudes of Evangeline."

BRANCHES PARK,

_November 3._

I wonder so much if it is amusing to be an adventuress, because that is
evidently what I shall become now. I read in a book all about it; it is
being nice looking and having nothing to live on, and getting a pleasant
time out of life--and I intend to do that! I have certainly nothing to
live on, for one cannot count L300 a year; and I am extremely pretty, and
I know it quite well, and how to do my hair, and put on my hats, and those
things--so, of course, I am an adventuress! I was not intended for this
role--in fact, Mrs. Carruthers adopted me on purpose to leave me her
fortune, as at that time she had quarrelled with her heir, who was bound
to get the place. Then she was so inconsequent as not to make a proper
will--thus it is that this creature gets everything, and I nothing!

I am twenty, and up to the week before last, when Mrs. Carruthers got ill
and died in one day, I had had a fairly decent time at odd moments when
she was in a good temper.

There is no use pretending even when people are dead, if one is writing
down one's real thoughts. I detested Mrs. Carruthers most of