Elinor's College Career (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... ELINOR'S COLLEGE CAREER CHAPTER I THE TWO MTTLE GIELS WHO LAUGHED "I don't want to--I don't want to--I don't want to--go to college--go to coBege--go to college. I don't want to--go to college." The words chanted themselves monotonously over and over in Elinor's brain, keeping time to the clicking of the rails under the rumble of the wheels and the groaning of the train's iron bones. "But you have to--but you have to--but you have to--go to college. But you have to--go to college," creaked the answer in maddening reiteration. "But you have to--but you have to--" "Oh, conductor " piped up an eager young voice from a seat farther down the car, "be sure to let me get off at the right station, and don't forget my trunk. It is a large trunk covered with gray canvas and marked with my name at one end. I am a freshman, you know, and I am going to college all alone. Have you ever been there? Do you know what it looks like? Oh, can you really see it from the train? What fun " Elinor's sensitive mouth lost its sulky expression in a twinkling quiver of amusement. She lifted her pretty head for a survey of the other girl, who looked rather young to be a freshman. At the minute Elinor did not reflect that her own hair was worn in a long braid and her own skirts barely reached her ankles. It seemed natural for her to be ready to enter college at the age of sixteen, because her ambitious mother had planned for this from her very birth. Undoubtedly circumstances were different with this impetuous fellow traveler whose evident delight showed that she was going to college of her own accord. When the conductor pointed to a mass of brick buildings, like an angular blot of red on a distant green hill, with " There's the college now " she ran from window to window, craning her n...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... ELINOR'S COLLEGE CAREER CHAPTER I THE TWO MTTLE GIELS WHO LAUGHED "I don't want to--I don't want to--I don't want to--go to college--go to coBege--go to college. I don't want to--go to college." The words chanted themselves monotonously over and over in Elinor's brain, keeping time to the clicking of the rails under the rumble of the wheels and the groaning of the train's iron bones. "But you have to--but you have to--but you have to--go to college. But you have to--go to college," creaked the answer in maddening reiteration. "But you have to--but you have to--" "Oh, conductor " piped up an eager young voice from a seat farther down the car, "be sure to let me get off at the right station, and don't forget my trunk. It is a large trunk covered with gray canvas and marked with my name at one end. I am a freshman, you know, and I am going to college all alone. Have you ever been there? Do you know what it looks like? Oh, can you really see it from the train? What fun " Elinor's sensitive mouth lost its sulky expression in a twinkling quiver of amusement. She lifted her pretty head for a survey of the other girl, who looked rather young to be a freshman. At the minute Elinor did not reflect that her own hair was worn in a long braid and her own skirts barely reached her ankles. It seemed natural for her to be ready to enter college at the age of sixteen, because her ambitious mother had planned for this from her very birth. Undoubtedly circumstances were different with this impetuous fellow traveler whose evident delight showed that she was going to college of her own accord. When the conductor pointed to a mass of brick buildings, like an angular blot of red on a distant green hill, with " There's the college now " she ran from window to window, craning her n...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

February 2012

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First published

February 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

72

ISBN-13

978-1-150-55018-8

Barcode

9781150550188

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1-150-55018-X



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