Herland

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Gilman Charlotte Perkins. Herland

CHAPTER 1. A Not Unnatural Enterprise

CHAPTER 2. Rash Advances

CHAPTER 3. A Peculiar Imprisonment

CHAPTER 4. Our Venture

CHAPTER 5. A Unique History

CHAPTER 6. Comparisons Are Odious

CHAPTER 7. Our Growing Modesty

CHAPTER 8. The Girls of Herland

CHAPTER 9. Our Relations and Theirs

CHAPTER 10. Their Religions and Our Marriages

CHAPTER 11. Our Difficulties

CHAPTER 12. Expelled

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Not more than ten or fifteen miles we judged it from our landing rock to that last village. For all our eagerness we thought it wise to keep to the woods and go carefully.

Even Terry’s ardor was held in check by his firm conviction that there were men to be met, and we saw to it that each of us had a good stock of cartridges.

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He stepped forward, with his brilliant ingratiating smile, and made low obeisance to the women before him. Then he produced another tribute, a broad soft scarf of filmy texture, rich in color and pattern, a lovely thing, even to my eye, and offered it with a deep bow to the tall unsmiling woman who seemed to head the ranks before him. She took it with a gracious nod of acknowledgment, and passed it on to those behind her.

He tried again, this time bringing out a circlet of rhinestones, a glittering crown that should have pleased any woman on earth. He made a brief address, including Jeff and me as partners in his enterprise, and with another bow presented this. Again his gift was accepted and, as before, passed out of sight.

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