The Young Woman\'s Guide
CHAPTER I. EXPLANATION OF TERMS. Defining terms. The word excellence here used as nearly synonymous with holiness. What is meant by calling the work a Guide. The term Woman-- why preferable, as a general term, to Lady. The class to whom this work is best adapted. CHAPTER II. FEMALE RESPONSIBILITIES. Comparison of the responsibilities of young men and young women. Saying of Dr. Rush. Its application to young women. Definition of the term education. Bad and good education. Opinions of Solomon. Influence of a young woman in a family--in a school. Anecdotes of female influence. West, Alexander, Caesar, Franklin. Story of a domestic in Boston. The good she is doing. Special influence of young women in families--and as sisters. Female influence in the renovation of the world. CHAPTER III. SELF-EDUCATION. Views of Agesilaus, king of Sparta--of Solomon, king of Israel. Mistake corrected. What the wisest and best parents cannot do. What, therefore,
and kissed her. She joined her hands on the nape of his neck, and
with this leverage raised her whole body for an instant, like a child,
smiling; then dropped back with a fatigued sigh, also like a child.
He found satisfaction in the fact that she was laid aside. It was
providential. It set him right with himself. For, to put the thing
crudely, he had left the tragic Concepcion to come to Christine, a
woman picked up in a Promenade.
True, Sara Trevise had agreed with him that he could accomplish no
good by staying at Concepcion's; Concepcion had withdrawn from the
vision of men. True, it could make no difference to Concepcion whether
he retired to his flat for the rest of the day and saw no one, or
whether, having changed his ceremonious clothes there, he went out
again on his own affairs. True, he had promised Christine to see her
that afternoon, and a promise was a promise, and Christine was a woman
who had behaved well to him, and it would have been impossible for
him to send her an excuse, since he did not know her surname. These
apparently excellent arguments were specious and worthless. He would,
anyhow, have gone to Christine. The call was imperious within him,
and took no heed of grief, nor propriety, nor the secret decencies of
sympathy. The primitive man in him would have gone to Christine.
He sat down with a profound and exquisite relief. The entrance to the
house was nearly opposite the entrance to a prim but fashionable
and expensive hotel. To ring (and ring the right bell) and wait at
Christine's door almost under the eyes of the hotel was an ordeal....
CHAPTER I. EXPLANATION OF TERMS. Defining terms. The word excellence here used as nearly synonymous with holiness. What is meant by calling the work a Guide. The term Woman-- why preferable, as a general term, to Lady. The class to whom this work is best adapted. CHAPTER II. FEMALE RESPONSIBILITIES. Comparison of the responsibilities of young men and young women. Saying of Dr. Rush. Its application to young women. Definition of the term education. Bad and good education. Opinions of Solomon. Influence of a young woman in a family--in a school. Anecdotes of female influence. West, Alexander, Caesar, Franklin. Story of a domestic in Boston. The good she is doing. Special influence of young women in families--and as sisters. Female influence in the renovation of the world. CHAPTER III. SELF-EDUCATION. Views of Agesilaus, king of Sparta--of Solomon, king of Israel. Mistake corrected. What the wisest and best parents cannot do. What, therefore,