CHAPTER III
The morning after Charlotte set herself those Three Great Sums she found that a feeling of reaction had followed the excitement of the night before. "Oh, I never, never could!" she told herself in a frightened voice. "I would only be a silly thing to try."
The more she thought it over the more she felt that way. And, truth to tell, her Three Great Sums were certainly formidable enough, even for a girl who had been graduated at the head of her class. "I might be able to get some folks to like me," she thought, "though I've never been able to make friends yet. And I might be able to get my picture in some of the papers, if I did something awful enough! But to make everybody like me—and have my picture in all the papers—and then on
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