Word: rightousness
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...story of Lilly Penny--LilyBecker Penny--brought up in the close moral confines imposed by a rightous mother who believed in telling her daughter nothing about anything except the virtues of a "settled married life". So Lilly marries, but after three weeks of marriage, she revolts to flee to New York, where she tries to be herself; whe obtains a heraing for her voice from the great Auchinloss, but it is not a great voice. Who knows but that sufficient freedom given her in her earlier year might not have allowed it to develop? At any rate, Lilly decides that...
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