She bought the set of Stevenson with her prize money and usually read it on Friday evening
The McBrides invited Judy to spend the summer at their camp in the Adirondacks.
The camp: they belong to a sort of club on a lonely little lake in the middle of the woods. The different members had different houses made of logs(брёвна) dotted about among the trees, and they go canoeing on the lake, and take long walks through trails to other camps, and have dances once a week in the club house.
She had received an answer from Daddy’s secretary man, who wanted her not to take McBride’s invitation.
She thought it would be a fine chance for her to learn housekeeping. They were planning to do a lot of reading English and sociology together with Sallie.
She had received an answer from Daddy that she must go to Lock Willow. She was leaving.
2nd summer:
She wrote 4 short stories and sent to 4 different magazines.
Mr Pendleton was going to drop in. And the Semples and Judy cleaned the farm. ‘Whatever Mrs Semple’s limitations, she is a HOUSEKEEPER’. The house was good even before.
Mrs Semple got rather monotonous.
Adventurous: they explored the country for miles, Judy had learned to fish, to shoot with a riffle(винтовка) and a revolver and to ride horseback.
They climbed Sky Hill, a mount near there. They stayed up for the sunset and built a fire and cooked their supper. Jervis did the cooking, as he knew how better than Judy, as he had used to camping.
She thought the world was full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you were only willing to take the kind that came your way. The whole secret was in being pliable(гибким).
She was rearing ‘Treasure Island’. Her mind was very much engaged at Stevenson. He comprised Lock Willow’s library.
Jervis had left and they were missing him. She was finding Mrs Semple’s conversation pretty unseasoned food.
During the summer she had wrote 6 short stories and 7 poems. Those she had sent to the magazines all had come back with the most courteous promptitude(обходительной быстротой).
But she didn’t mind as it was good practice.
Master Jervie read them and he said they were dreadful. They had showed that she didn’t have the slightest idea of what she was talking about. But the last one – just a little sketch laid in college – he said wasn’t bad; and he had it typewritten and she sent it to a magazine and was waiting for an answer.
Two letters:
1) Her story ‘When the Sophomores Won the Game’ was accepted. 50$. The book’s price was 10 cents.
2) A letter from a college secretary. She was to have a scholarship for two years that would cover board and tuition. It was founded for ‘marked proficiency(опыт) in English with general excellency in other lines’. So, the monthly allowance would be all she needed.
3rd study year:
Daddy didn’t want her to tale the scholarship, bus she had already accepted it and was not going to change.
Judy’s ultimatum: if Daddy made any more fuss, she wouldn’t accept the monthly allowance either, but would wear herself into a nervous wreck stupid Freshmen. He could apply the money that he would have spent her toward education some other little girl from the JGH. ‘Only, Daddy, educate the new girl as much as you choose, but please don’t like her any better than me’.
He decided not to pay attention to Daddy’s secretary suggestions. ‘He is a spoiled chiled’. She was going to be firm.
Julia invited her to visit her for the Xmas holidays. Judy would prefer to go to Sallie, but Julia asked her first. She didn’t know why Julia wanted her – she seemed to be getting quite attached to Judy of late. She was awed(трепетала) at the prospect of meeting Pendletones en masse.
She was reading ‘Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley’. It was nice light reading to pick up between times.
She had elected economics that year – very illuminating subject. She was going to take Charity and Reform.
She was 21 the previous week.
Daddy let her visit Julia.
They had Founder’s dance. Judy invited Jimmie McBride, Sallie invited his roommate at Princeton, who visited them last summer at their camp – an awfully nice man with red hair – and Julia invited a man from New York, not very exciting, but socially irreproachable. He was connected with the De la Mater Chichester.
Girls’ dresses: Julia’s was cream satin and gold embroidery(вышивкой), and she wore purple orchids. It was dream and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie’s was pale blue trimmed with Persian embroidery, and went beautifully with red hair. It didn’t cost quite a million, but was just as effective, as Julia’s. Judy’s was pale pink crepe de chine trimmed with ecru lace(кружево) and rose satin. And I carried crimson(тёмно-красные) roses which J. McB. sent. And they all had satin slippers and silk stockings and chiffon scarfs to match.
What a clourless life a man is forced to lead.
She understood she was pretty.
Xmas presents from Daddy: the furs, the necklace, the Liberty scarf, the gloves, the handkerchiefs, book and purse.
New York was an engrossing(увлекательное) place. Judy had an interesting and illuminating time, but she was glad she didn’t belong to such a family.
Pendletons’ house: The material atmosphere of the house was crushing. All the furniture was carved and upholstered and gorgeous; people she met there were beautifully dressed and low-voiced and well-bred, but Judy never heard one word of real talk from the time they arrived until they left.
Mrs Pendleton never thought of anything but jewels and dressmakers and social engagements.
If Judy would have a family, she was going to make them as exactly McBrides as she could.
She saw Jervis only once when he called at tea time, and then she didn’t have a chance to talk to him alone.
Judy thought to be a Socialist, too. She belonged to the proletariat.
The true secret of happiness – to live in the now. She was going to enjoy every second, and she was going to know she was enjoying it while she was enjoying it. ‘Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon’.
She was a Fabian, a Socialist who was willing to wait.
Judy had passed successfully her mid-year examinations. She was leaving chemistry and entering upon the study of biology. She approached that subject with some hesitation(сомнением).
They were reading Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’.
She liked the Romantic movement (Shelley, Byron, Keats, Wordsworth) MORE THAN THE Classical period that preceded it. She read Tennyson’s ‘Locksley Hall’.
There was a swimming tank in the gymnasium and Sallie had given Judy her bathing-suit.
They were going to Princeton to attend a dance and a ball game. Judy didn’t ask Daddy if she might go, because she had a feeling that his secretary would say no.
Judy’s 3 new dresses: white, pink and blue polka dots with a hat to match.
‘A girls’ college is a busy place and we do get tired by the end of the day’.