Concerning Belinda

Оглавление

C.J. Brainerd. Concerning Belinda

AN APOLOGY

CHAPTER I. BELINDA AND THE TWELVE

CHAPTER II. THE MUSICAL ROMANCE OF AMELIA

CHAPTER III. THE ELOPEMENT OF EVANGELINE MARIE

CHAPTER IV. A WOLF IN THE FOLD

CHAPTER V. THE BLACK SHEEP'S CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER VI. THE BLIGHTED BEING

CHAPTER VII. THE PASSING OF AN AFFINITY

CHAPTER VIII. THE QUEER LITTLE THING

CHAPTER IX. A CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE

CHAPTER X. ADELINA AND THE DRAMA

Отрывок из книги

FOR years New York had been beckoning to Belinda. All during her time at the western co-educational college, where she collected an assortment of somewhat blurred impressions concerning Greek roots, Latin depravity, and modern literature, and assisted liberally in the education of her masculine fellow-students, New York, with its opportunities for work and experience, had lured her on. Fortune she would not need. Daddy had attended to that in his will, but success, and a knowledge of the world outside of Indiana, she must have.

This fixed purpose rendered her immune from the sentimental and matrimonial epidemics that devastate the Junior and Senior ranks in co-educational institutions. She graduated with honours – and with scalps. Many Seniors went away sorrowful because of her, the French professor lapsed into hopeless Gallic gloom, and even the professor of ancient history was forced into painful recognition of the importance of the moderns.

.....

"Isn't he just too perfectly sweet, Miss Carewe?" gurgled Amelia Bowers in her ear.

Belinda was non-committal.

.....