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CONCERNING BELINDA
BOOKS BY
ELEANOR HOYT BRAINERD
"CONCERNING BELINDA"
"NANCY'S COUNTRY CHRISTMAS AND OTHER STORIES"
"THE MISDEMEANORS OF NANCY"
"A gay, dimpling girl and a stalwart, handsome man were whirling down Fifth Avenue"
CONCERNING BELINDA
BY
ELEANOR HOYT BRAINERD
ILLUSTRATED BY
HARRISON FISHER
AND
KATHARINE N. RICHARDSON
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1904, 1905, by
The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1905, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, September, 1905
All rights reserved,
including that of translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian.
AN APOLOGY
To all principals of New York boarding-schools, the author of these sketches offers humble apologies for having approached those excellent institutions chiefly from their humorous side.
That the city boarding-school has its earnest and serious phases, its charming and sensible pupils, no rational mortal could deny; but each finishing school has, also, its Amelias, and their youthful absurdities offer tempting material to the writer of tales.
