This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... dressed herself in her Sunday dress, said a brief and composed good-bye to the weeping Mrs. Doane, and started off! From Proctor's she went to Columbus, where she bought a ticket to Cincinnati, the same city whence she had come, or rather been deported, some six or seven years earlier. Cincinnati might have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... dressed herself in her Sunday dress, said a brief and composed good-bye to the weeping Mrs. Doane, and started off! From Proctor's she went to Columbus, where she bought a ticket to Cincinnati, the same city whence she had come, or rather been deported, some six or seven years earlier. Cincinnati might have been said to be her home, in the sense that it was the first place she remembered clearly, and that it was where she had spent most of her life before going to the Reform School. She did not know a soul in the town, but what difference did that make? She was practically without friends or even acquaintances anywhere. She was very young, strikingly handsome, dangerously alone; but to have expressed sympathy for her on that score would have invited her slow smile. Other girls in a like position might run a grave risk, but not Jennie Cushing. She knew how to take care of herself, she knew what she wanted, and she had a shrewd surmise as to what she was likely to get. Hers was not the courage of ignorance; it was a by-product of her coolness, foresight and resolution. She embarked upon the adventure like any boy, like--let us say--Hank Meigs himself, who would have delighted in her spirit; and no proceeding, from her point of view, could have been more simple, more natural, or less interesting in retrospect. The powers being said to help those who help themselves, Jennie had a certain luck. In the depot at Columbus she fell in with a respectable young woman, not much older than herself, but with two small children, returning from a visit in Sandusky "with my husband's folks," as she told Jennie, when the acquaintance had reached a confidential stage. They had a couple of hours to wait for their train, and shared luncheons together, Jennie's...
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Crack In Binding On Cover Page With Webbing Exposed, But No Loose Pages Or Other Damage, Previous Owners Name On Cover Page, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy.
