Marshall Neilan

Biographical details

Portrait of Marshall Neilan Marshall Neilan,  Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)

“ Judy,—the example.
"GOD will punish little girls who steal and will send them straight to a burning hot—hell."
"As hot as this stove."
It's all very well to punish other people's children. But it's different matter when is comes to punishing our own.
"Please, darling, do as mother asks."
"I won't get out of this car until you promise to throw that nasty little Judy Abbott out into the street."
"Don't be harsh with her, dear, she is only expressing her indivuduality."
Far into the weary hours of the night Judy watches over the little one who wants her mama.
"I want my mama."
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Portrait of Marshall Neilan Marshall Neilan,  Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)

“ The Great Prune Strike.
Three times a day the orphans faced their common enemy, the prune.
"The lives of us orphans is just one darn prune after another!"
"Us boys is with you——starvation 'til we croak."
"P-R-U-N-E spells Prune
Eating them means our doom.
Life's too short and death too soon
To fill our tummies with the darn old Prune."
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Portrait of Marshall Neilan Marshall Neilan,  Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)

“ The big moment of Judy's life is robbed of its joy, for her soul is garbed in the hated gingham of the orphanage.
"I understand."
"I can't stand this ancestral morgue another minute! Please, Jimmie, drive me out to Lock-Willow."
Even the weather weeps in sympathy.
"I'm sorry, Jimmie, dear, but I can't marry you—you aren't grown up enough for me."
Where there's no sense there's no feeling.
Jarvis wanders aimlessly for hours, dazed by his unhappiness.
B.PHILLIP
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs;— ⁠I love somebody even more than you, but I've refused to marry him.
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