Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings

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Marsh Richard. Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings

I. A WONDERFUL GIRL

II. CUPID'S MESSENGER

III. THE OGRE

IV. THE HANDWRITING

V. THE PEOPLE'S STOCK EXCHANGE

VI. BREAKING THE ICE

VII. A GIRL WHO COULDN'T

VIII. THE PRINCESS MARGARETTA

IX. THE END OF HIS HOLIDAY

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IV

X. THE GIRL AND THE BOY

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II

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IV

XI. A MUTUAL AFFINITY

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II

XII. MAGICAL MUSIC

I – APOSTLE SPOONS

II – UNDER THE SPELL

III. – A CURIOUS COURTSHIP

IV. – HIS AUNT EXPLAINS

XIII. A RUNAWAY WIFE

I. – FLIGHT

II. – THE WOMAN WHO MET HER

III. – A HOUSE OF THIEVES

IV. – OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN

V. – INTO THE FIRE

VI – AFTERWARDS

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I do protest that it was not altogether my fault. At least-; but if I tell you exactly how it was you will understand what I mean.

I was fifteen. It was after I had left Miss Pritchard's. Not that I was much wiser than I was when I was at Miss Pritchard's. Though that was not my opinion at the time. In what I then called my judgment I was the wisest person the world had ever seen-perhaps it would be more correct to write that that was my estimate of myself as a rule. There were between-whiles when I knew better. I was at Mrs Sawyer's-Lingfield House School-at Brighton to be finished. And a nice finish they made of me.

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"Miss Frazer? Who is Miss Frazer?" He turned to me. "Is that the young lady who joined the class a week or two ago? I have forgotten her name."

I was tongue-tied. A conviction was stealing over me that the whole thing was a hideous mistake, that I had been making a spectacle of myself on an unusually handsome scale. The tone in which he put his question was sincerity itself. It was impossible to suspect him of an intention to deceive. At least I should have thought so, though it pleased his wife, apparently, to think otherwise.

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