Kate Douglas Wiggin
PENELOPE'S PROGRESS - Complete Series: Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences & Penelope's Postscripts
(Unabridged)
Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
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Table of Contents
PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLAND
PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES
II. The Powdered Footman Smiles
IV. The English Sense of Humour
VIII. Tuppenny Travels in London
IX. A Table of Kindred and Affinity
XI. The Ball on the Opposite Side
XVII. Short Stops and Long Bills
XXIV. An Unlicensed Victualler
To my Boston friend Salemina.
No Anglomaniac, but a true Briton.
Part First.
In Town
Chapter I.
The Weekly Bill
Smith’s Hotel
10 Dovermarle Street.
Here we are in London again,—Francesca, Salemina, and I. Salemina is a philanthropist of the Boston philanthropists limited. I am an artist. Francesca is— It is very difficult to label Francesca. She is, at her present stage of development, just a nice girl; that is about all: the sense of humanity hasn’t dawned upon her yet; she is even unaware that personal responsibility for the universe has come into vogue, and so she is happy.
Francesca is short of twenty years old, Salemina short of forty, I short of thirty. Francesca
