Excerpt: ...with her own affairs up to the present to find out much about them. The other girl, Marie Bateman, had entered the class that year. She had come from a little village forty miles south of Oakdale, was the oldest of a large family, her mother being a widow of very small means. As her mother was unable to send her away to school, she had done clerical work for the only lawyer in the home town for the previous two years, studying between whiles. She had entered the High School in the junior class, determining to ...
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Excerpt: ...with her own affairs up to the present to find out much about them. The other girl, Marie Bateman, had entered the class that year. She had come from a little village forty miles south of Oakdale, was the oldest of a large family, her mother being a widow of very small means. As her mother was unable to send her away to school, she had done clerical work for the only lawyer in the home town for the previous two years, studying between whiles. She had entered the High School in the junior class, determining to graduate and then to work her way through Normal School. By dint of questioning, Grace had discovered that she lived in a shabby little room in the suburbs, never went anywhere and did Pg 132 anything honest in the way of earning money that she could find to do. The realization of what some of these girls were willing to endure for the sake of getting an education made Grace feel guilty at being so comfortably situated. She determined that the holidays that year should not find them without friends and cheer. After a rousing Thanksgiving dinner, in which the inevitable turkey, with all its toothsome accompaniments, played a prominent part, the girls retired to Grace's room for a final adjustment of hair and a last survey in the mirror before going to the game. High School matters formed the principal theme of conversation, and Grace was not surprised to learn that Eleanor had been carrying things with a high hand in third-year French class, in which Ellen Holt, one of the Portville girls, recited. "She speaks French as well as Professor La Roche," said Miss Holt, "but she nearly drives him crazy sometimes. She will pretend she doesn't understand him and will make him explain the construction of a sentence over and over again, or she will argue with him about a point until he loses his temper completely. She makes perfectly ridiculous caricatures of him, and leaves them on his desk when class is over, and she asks him to translate im Pg 133...
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Frontis. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12 Vo; 1 Pound. dj in mylar; ownr's name on flyleaf; 246 clean, unmarked pages. reprint, no date given (circa 1935)
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b/w Illustration. Good+ J No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" In grey cloth with blue pictorial upper cover and titling, 8vo, 212pp. Light shelfwear to extremities, light soiling to rear cover, endpaper creased/browned.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo; 1 Pound. ownr's name in pencil on flyleaf; dj w/tiny closed tear at lower edge, lite chipping, in mylar; 212 clean, unmarked, moderately age-toned pages; no date given (circa 1910?
