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Excerpt from Corner Stones: That Our Daughters May Be as Corner Stones, Polished After the Similitude
You do, boy? Was the memorable remark of Miss Murdstone when she first met David Copperfield. Generally Speaking, I don't like girls. They always make me feel rather shy. Little boys are much easier to get on with. You can put things on a pleasant footing by the gift Of five shillings or half a crown - a very small boy will even accept sixpence with gratitude, and you can make a friend for life of a gorgeous young gentleman in a collar and coat-tails by giving him a sovereign. When the waves Of adversity engulf you, he of the collar and tails will always say, Poor Old chap, he once tipped me a sovereign. There is a popular superstition that you cannot Offer little girls money. Personally I believe they would accept it with much outward reluctance but great inward satisfaction. But who has the courage to tender even so Old and valuable a friend as a half - crown to a small person in a Liberty velveteen frock, or to a more advanced young woman in a serge skirt and a red tam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
