Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
I sat long by the lesser hole. Frontispiece.
MISS CON
BY
AGNES GIBERNE
AUTHOR OF "SUN, MOON AND STARS," "BERYL AND PEARL," "ST. AUSTIN'S LODGE," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY EDGAR GIBERNE
"Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise."—LONGFELLOW.
NINTH THOUSAND
London
JAMES NISBET & CO., LIMITED
22 BERNERS STREET, W.
Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
PREFACE.
I DO not think I need apologise for sending out another tale about girls and for girls—a tale of everyday life, such as numerous everyday girls in this Nineteenth Century have to live. There may be already a legion of books belonging, more or less, to the same class; but the omnivorous appetite of modern girlhood is not yet satisfied.
Nor, perhaps, need I apologise for its being in some measure a story about and for young Authoresses, incipient or developed. So many girls now crowd the lower rungs of literary ladders, that a few general hints for their guidance can hardly fail to be useful in one quarter or another.
It must not, however, be supposed that "All Those Girls" were would-be Authoresses!
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
I. CRAVEN'S SENTIMENTS
II. AND CONSTANCE CONWAY'S
III. HOW DIAMONDS FLASH
IV. RAILWAY IMAGININGS
V. A "PRICELESS PRIVILEGE" REALISED
VI. A MOTHER'S SWANS
VII. THYRZA'S SANCTUM
VIII. "MILLIE"
IX. THE QUESTION OF ABBREVIATIONS
X. PLENTY OF "ER"
XI. JUVENILE AUTHORSHIP
XII. AND MAGGIE'S EFFORTS
XIII. LETTERS—VARIOUS
XIV. SUBLIMITY AND MAGGIE
XV. THAT PUBLISHER!!
XVI. WHETHER SOMEBODY LIKED SOMEBODY?
XVII. GLADYS HEPBURN'S FIRST SUCCESSES
XVIII. SERIOUS NEWS
XIX. A MOUNTAIN STATION
XX. AND A YORKSHIRE DALE
XXI. THROUGH A STORM
XXII. MYSTERIOUS HOLES
XXIII. "INDEED!"
XXIV. UNPALATABLE ADVICE
XXV. ALONE IN GURGLEPOOL
XXVI. AUTHORSHIP—WHETHER? AND HOW?
XXVII. ELFIE'S CONFESSION
XXVIII. NON-RAPTURES
XXIX. AND YET!
XXX. A REAL FIVE-SHILLING BOOK
XXXI. CROOKED AND STRAIGHT
XXXII. VERY UNEXPECTED
XXXIII. CONFIDENTIAL IN A CAVE
XXXIV. DIFFERENCES OF VIEW
XXXV. ENTIRELY VANISHED
XXXVI. AND HE!
MISS CON.