Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 158
efused tobe reconciled. For by this time Ethels point of view waswholly changed. The girls who shared herroom gossiped about Mrs. Fairfax, and she hadlearned to join glibly in the idle talk, for shewas morbidly anxious to seem in nowise differ-ent from them. It was not long before her independence… … ASY is the descent into Aver-nus, says the old proverb, andEthel was finding the truthof it. Indeed, it seemed toher that there was no otherway than the downward road,when one has once started.Having committed herself to statements whichcarried with them the impression that she wassomething higher…
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