Identifier: januarygirl00gray (find matches)
Title: The January girl
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Gray, Joslyn
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nk it would give me a good meas-ure of satisfaction, he owned. I think I prefer toteach girls instead of young ladies. Well, then, I will, she said softly. And thoughshe drew a deep sigh and there were tears in hereyes, he had no idea that genuine self-denial was in-volved. He would have acknowledged, if questioned, how-ever, that the January girl wasnt one to do thingsby halves. And truly, on Monday there seemed to beyet another new scholar in the third-year class. Janiceappeared in the morning with her heavy chestnut hairparted in the middle, braided and hanging down herback. Her dark-green frock was as simple as JaneClements even if it were more graceful, and her low-heeled boots as comfortable as those of any of theboys. Far more attractive, now, and undeniably hand-some, she didnt, perhaps, at first seem to the mannerborn, but for some little time had an air about her asof masquerading, with a peculiar charm about her thatmight have recalled one of Shakespeares disguisedheroines.
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Though there were tears in her eyes, he had no idea that genuine self-denial was involved THE JANUARY GIRL 31 Rather appealing, too, the change in the Januarygirl was, accompanied as it was by imitation of themanners and ways of the other girls, and the con-tinuance of her frank and friendly advances towardsthem. And now Jans classmates began insensibly toalter their attitude: in spite of themselves they wereyet further drawn towards her. Had it not been forRosemarys unchanged front, the January girl wouldhave been taken at once into their midst. But theylooked to her, and Rosemary, who, despite her beauty,had no vanity, and cared little for clothes, yieldingutterly to her mothers taste, wasnt moved as theywere by the transformation in the other girls exterior.She knew vulgarity to be innate and incurable.Furthermore, she still smarted from that patronizingoffer of aid with her algebra which was to have helpedplacate her father! Wherefore, for some little time, matters were inunstable

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