BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Third Edition. Price 2s. 6d. ENGLISH GIRLS: THEIR PLACE AND POWER. With a Preface by R. W. DALE, M.A., of Birmingham. Price 3s. 6d. WAKING AND WORKING; OR, FROM GIRLHOOD TO WOMANHOOD. With a Frontispiece. Price 3s. 6d. BLESSING AND BLESSED: A SKETCH OF GIRL LIFE. With a Frontispiece. Price Is. 6d. SUNSHINE JENNY, AND OTHER STORIES. Price Is. 6d. SUNBEAM WILLIE, AND OTHER STORIES. Price Is. 6d. JUST ANYONE, AND OTHER STORIES. C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON. A STORY FOR GIRLS Dedicated to their Mothers BY MRS. G. S. REANEY AUTHOR OF 99 66 ETC., ETC. "For right is right, since God is God, To falter would be sin" BIBLIOTHERA F. W. FABER IN 181 BODLEIANA LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE PREFACE. I DEDICATE my book to mothers: and for two reasons. Firstly, I would bring before our mothers a phase of life and thought which have their due significance when they are recognized as a possible experience in the lives of our daughters. Secondly, because I would prefer that this little volume should reach all thoughtful girls, as a gift direct from the mother. That the present story is merely a reproduction of facts few will question. Whether these facts should be brought before our daughters may and will call forth a question. For my own part, venturing to believe it to be a far wiser plan to enlighten our girls as life advances, than to leave them, through ignorance, at the mercy of the unprincipled; also that it is safer to give knowledge of a certain kind than to allow it to be gathered from books of a doubtful tone, or received from minds of questionable purity, I feel led, after |
