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"Well, if we are, who's to blame?" rejoined Eleanor, spiritedly "Now,
Carley Burch, you listen to irl in
Aes of the
universe I adreatness Listen Here is a crying sin--an infernal paradox Take this
twentieth-century girl, this A and healthy girl, the reatest city on earth--New York! She holds
absolutely an unreal, untrue position in the scheme of existence
Surrounded by parents, relatives, friends, suitors, and instructive
schools of every kind, colleges, institutions, is she really happy, is
she really living?"
"Eleanor," interrupted Carley, earnestly, "she is not And I've been
trying to tell you why"
"My dear, let et a word in, will you," complained Eleanor "You
don't know it all There are as many different points of view as there
are people Well, if this girl happened to have a new frock, and a
new beau to show it to, she'd say, 'I' of the kind Only she doesn't know that She
approaches
had tootoo much Her
masculine satellites--father, brothers, uncles, friends, lovers--all
utterly spoil her Mind you, I irls like us, of the est and best class of Aoes on smoothly, as if its aim
was to exclude friction and effort Her husband makes it too easy for
her She is an ornae To
soil her pretty hands would be disgraceful! Even f she can't afford