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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WIDE OF THE MARK. 17 Such a big book I used to wonder how your poor little head could carry all you knew.' ' Did you ? You might have saved yourself the trouble, for it is a wonderfully small proportion of what aunt Janet thought it necessary to cram in that has remained within my brain.' ' And quite right too, ' put in Ulick cordially. ' As if any one would be the better for a girl having her head crammed with heavy stuff like that ' ' Well, I don't suppose that even aunt Janet, who is such an advocate for mind-storing, would think it advantageous to any one, but the unlucky girl herself, to be blue. What she is always preaching about is the necessity for women?she doesn't pretend to know anything about what is good for men?of self- control. Self-control and self-denial; those are the words she preaches on. She says that heavy reading?doing anything, in short?that we especially dislike, is so good for us.' ' By Jove, what a horrible doctrine ' exclaimed Ulick. ' I am glad that she doesn't think the same prescription advisable for us.' ' O, perhaps she thinks that you are past cure.' ' Too old to mend, eh ? But about my mother's protegee. Would you really like to know about the mystery ?' ' O, Ulick, ' stopping short, and clasping her hands eagerly, ' is it true ? You don't actually mean it Do tell me what you know;' and unlocking her small VOL. I. 0 fingers, she linked her arm into her cousin's, and looked up appealingly into his sunburnt face. The young man's cheek?for he was at the age when the blood is easily quickened by the soft touch of woman?flushed a little as he said, ' What will you give me if I tell ? Nothing for nothing, you know, in this world, and?' ' Nonsense Haw can you talk in such a foolish way ?' said Mabel angrily. ' .

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.