Modern daughters; conversations with various American girls and one man (1899)
Black, Alexander, 1859-1940 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 41
II WITH A LEFT-OVER GIRL … As I drew near I saw that the book was covered with a fragment of unlettered paper, a circumstance which left to merely ocular dexterity no chance of knowing what she was reading. C£ My dear,” I said in a sort of paternal way, designed to palliate the effect of an intrusion, “ for a moment I was…
Women -- Social and moral questions
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