A Young Woman's Life - A Memoir

From 15 to 17, she was in training for a heroine. She read all such works as heroines must read. From pom she learned to censure those who bear about the mockery of woe. And from shakespeare she gained great store of information. So far, her improvement was sion. For though she could not write sonnets, she brought herself to read them. Though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into raptures by a prelude on the piano fore of her own composition, she could listen to other people's performance with very little fatigue. Her greatest efficiency was in the pencil. There she fell miserably short of the true heroic height. At