[A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)]@TWC D-Link book
A Daughter of To-Day

CHAPTER I
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I teach only English to the senior classes.
But I haven't heard Mr.Jackson complain of Elfrida at all." Feeling that she could no longer keep her errand at arm's length, Miss Kimpsey desperately closed with it.

"I've come--I hope you won't mind--Mrs.Bell, Elfrida has been quoting Rousseau in her compositions, and I thought you'd like to know." "In the original ?" asked Mrs.Bell, with interest.

"I didn't think her French was advanced enough for that." "No, from a translation," Miss Kimpsey replied.

"Her sentence ran: 'As the gifted Jean Jacques Rousseau told the world in his "Confessions"'-- I forget the rest.

That was the part that struck me most.


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