Excerpt from From a Woman's Note-Book: Studies in Modern Girlhood and Other Sketches
Ethel is a high-school girl of seventeen; and I am going to tell of a tour I made With her in the summer vacation.
Now Ethel is a pretty girl, sweet and well mannered; indeed she comes up generally to so high a standard of excellence in girls, that I am afraid I shall seem but a cross-grained female for relating the following story: and yet it is all true; I have not enlarged on it by one word. What I would like to discover is Where the fault lay. Iwill explain how it all came about.
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