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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: III. July 16. MY school-days are over I have come off with flying colours, and mother is pleased at my success. I said to her to-day that I should now have time to draw and practice to my heart's content. " You will not find your heart content with either," she said. " Why, mother " I cried; " I thought you liked to see me happy '" " And so I do," she said quietly " But there is something better to get out of life than you have yet found." " I am sure I hope so," I returned. On the whole I haven't got much so far. Amelia is now on such terms with Jenny Underhill that I can hardly see one without seeing the other. After the way in which I have loved her, this seems rather hard. Sometimes I am angry about it, and sometimes grieved. However, I find Jenny quite nice. . She buys all the new books and lends them to me. I wish I liked more solid reading; but I don't. And I wish I were not so fond of novels; but I am. If it were not for mother I should read nothing else. And I am sure I often feel quite stirred up by a really good novel, ' and admire and want to imitate every high-minded, noble character it describes. Jenny has a miniature of her brother "Charley" in a locket, which she always wears. and often shows me.According to her, he is exactly like the heroes I most admire in books. She says she knows he would like me if we should meet. But that is not probable. Very few like me. Amelia says it is because I say just what I think. Wednesday.?Mother pointed out to me this evening two lines from a book she was reading, with a significant smile that said they described me: " A frank, unchastened, generous creature, Whose faults and virtues stand in bold relief." "Dear me " I said; "so, then, I have some virtues after all " And I really think I...

Elizabeth Prentiss was a remarkable woman who authored a number of notable works in the 19th century. A writing prodigy, she used her sharp abilities to author stories poems, and even hymns despite much tragedy in her life. As she later stated, her purpose in writing, "Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls." This treasury contains her two most important and influential works, Stepping Heavenward and The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss