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The Poor Little Rich Girl 1 In the Home of Everything - except the Love she longed for, dwelt Gwendolyn, the Poor Little Rich Girl.
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MARY PICKFORD
as
GWEN
The Poor Little Rich Girl
3 The poor little rich girl's father, whose money making schemes left little time for tenderness.
4 The Tyrants of Modern Civilization, Servants --- By Position Masters by Disposition.
5 The poor little rich girl's mother, whose social duties seem of more importance than the hap- piness of her child.
6 "Mother promised to see me just one little minute, to-day."
7 "Mother is very busy to-day, dear. We'll try to have a little chat, to-morrow."
8 "Why do my to-morrows never come?"
9 And every morning, at the stroke of Ten, Grim Wisdom's teachers frowned on little Gwen.
10 "A school-room of my own is too big and lone- some. When my birth- day comes, I can ask for what I like and it's going to be the Public School."
11 "Everything her heart could wish and she isn't even grateful."
12
The dreaded
four o'clock drive.
13 "I don't want to be shut up, in that old car! I hate riding! I hate the chauffeur! I want to walk on my feet."
14 "Very well! Walk then, but don't blame Jane if the kidnap- pers get you."
15 "You must ride, because bad little rich girls who walk will be bitten by big dogs."
16 Empty hearts. Empty lives. Empty homes. Poor little rich girl.
17 "The unwelcome but necessary plumber."
18 "Ah! Go and grind de organ fer her. She's a good little feller, even if she is rich."
19 "Mr. Organ Grinder, I'd like a dollar's worth of music."
20 "Oh! You are the gentleman who fixes the pipes."
21 "Mr. Organ Grinder, permit me to intro- duce Mr. Piper."
22 "It was my fault, mother dear. I was so lonely, I asked them in."
23 "My daughter, Susie May will be a charming companion for Gwen- dolyn. I shall bring her to-morrow."
24
The anticipated
to-morrow with the longed for playmate.
25 "My house is much nicer than your house."
26 "My father is
much richer
than your father."
27 "My mother says your mother has a social bee in
her bonnet."
28 "She has not. It's a bird."
29 "Woof!"
30
"Say! Are you
scared o' bears?"
31 "Well, I'm a bear! Woof! Woof! Woof!"
32 "Gwendolyn bit me, on purpose."
33 "TATTLE-TALE!"
34 "Give Susie May Gwendolyn's best lace dress."
35 "She shan't. I won't
have my best lace
dress on a Tattle-tale"
36 So they punished the poor little rich girl, for wanting to be a free little poor girl.
37 "When I was a boy, I was made to wear my sister's clothes, as a punishment. We will try it on Gwendolyn."
38 "It's the poor little rich girl's house. We'll take a chance."
39 "My name is Gwendolyn and
I'm a boy."
40 "I'm Mickey Doolan, de leader of de Salmon Alley gang and you're a Sissy."
41
"Now you've
spoiled the best fight I ever had."
42 Gwen's father, whose wealth is more apparent than real, is caught in the collapse of the market and faces his life's crisis.
43 "Jane, will you take me, to-morrow, to my father's office?"
44 "I wouldn't go there, if I were you. It's full of bears."
45 "'Wuxtra'! 'Wuxtra'! Panic in Wall street. 'Wuxtra'!"
46 "Please talk to me, Daddy."
47 "Daddy, dear. Did the bears frighten you?"
48 "No. They tried to, but I'm still fighting them."
49 "Daddy! Haven't you time to love me a little?"
50 "I had lots and lots to tell you, Daddy, dear, I'm so lonely, I----"
51 The Eleventh mile- stone, on Gwen's lonely path.
52 "It's my eleventh birthday. Be nice to me Jane. I'm grown up. Wont you kiss me?"
53 "Jane, you're dis- missed. I'll take my bath alone."
54 Gwen's father, in his financial dilemma, is tempted to sell the old homestead.
55 "The happiest years of our lives were spent there. It seems like sacrilege to dispose of it."
56 "They forget I'm grown up. Baby's toys! Take them away."
57 "If you get off to-day, I'll go out to-night."
58 "She's an old Snake-in-the-
grass."
59 Society celebrates Gwen's birthday
without Gwen.
60 "Jane, you will mind Miss Gwen. The governess is going out to night."
61
"I bet he spoils
our 'theayter' party."
62 "Don't you remember me? I am the doctor who showed the stork where to bring you."
63 "Oh! Certainly. I remember you, now."
64 "Get some more of that sleeping medi- cine and she'll be no bother 'til morning."
65 "I don't like doctors. They give little girls horrid medicine then cut out their appendix and charge their papas a thousand dollars."
66 "They are burning the candle at both ends-- living much too fast."
67 "She has the Society Bee, in her bonnet."
68 "You Silly Ass! You'd spare the rod and spoil the child."
69 "I may be a Silly Ass, but I'm not a Two-faced Thing, like you."
70 "Get her to bed. We'll be late for the 'theayter.' Bill and Nora are waiting. Here's the dope."
71 "Guests or no guests, I must see him at once."
72 "If you don't want the bears to have it all their own way, you'll have to raise one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars
to-morrow morning."
73 "You didn't take it. You bad girl! You threw it in the cup."
74 "To the health of your daughter, on her birth-day."
75 The spell of the
drowsy drug.
76 Repairing the last traces of Gwen's bathroom escapade.
77 The Child's Mind Wanders Real voices faintly come
and go whilst every
character in her actual life is borne into her delirium.
78 "You are in the Garden of Lonely Children, in The Tell-tale Forest of Dreams. Here things ap- pear as they really are."
79 "Take you, for instance. You think you have every- thing. In fact, you have nothing at all."
80 "Oh! There's Mr. Grinder!"
81 "I wish I could find the Land of Happy Children. Let us go hunt for it."
82 "I'm your friend Potter. The Silly Ass!"
83 "You! Big Ears! And you! Two-faced
Thing! What have
you given this child."
84 And then began the frenzied struggle between the doctor and the deadly poison.
85 "This is the magic crystal, made of Mother's Tears, through which the truth is found."
86 "I know I shall never find happiness, without my father and mother."
87 "I want my father."
88 "They say that you're
made of money."
89 "It is The Land Where they Burn The Candles at Both Ends. Perhaps I can find my mother there!"
90 "The Bee in your Bon- net! Take her away! The Bee - The Bee!"
91 "You'll never find Happiness, until your mother forgets the Society Bee and your father ceases to Grind out Money."
92 "It's getting dark!
Oh! So dark!"
93 "I fear her little journey is almost done."
94 "My poor little girl! My poor little girl!"
95 "Poor---Little--- -Rich---Girl."
96 "Here, in the forest,
dark and deep,
I offer you,
eternal sleep."
97 "I come to light
your deep distress,
And show the Road,
to Happiness."
98 The hopes of dream- land lure the little soul from the Shadows of Death to the Joys of Life.
99 The old Home of Light and Life and Love.
100 "Happiness! Happiness! We have found it at last!"
101
"Oh, Doctor!
You brought me back."
102 "I'm hungry."
103 Early morning brings the man of affairs, eager for the Father to plunge once more into Wall Street's whirlpool.
104 "There is still time to raise the money."
105 "We have been fighting Death itself, and have learned what is truly precious. There is enough left for the life we are going to lead."
106 "Oh! I love mud."
THE END
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