From One Writer's Beginnings, by Eudora Welty
MOTHER'S DICKENS
"'And here is where I first began to read my Dickens,' Mother said, pointing. 'Under that very bed. Hiding my candle. To keep them from knowing what I was up to all night.'
'But where did it all come from?' I asked her at last. 'All that Dickens?'
'Why, Papa gave me that set of Dickens for agreeing to let them cut off my hair,' she said, as if surprised that a reason like that wouldn't have occurred to me."
From Chapter II, Learning to See
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