Excerpt from Good-Bye, Proud World Women read it and want to know what other women think about the new books and fashions, about every new fad and kink even what other women say and think about politics. He was not a. Man who did anything in haste. Nevertheless when Milicent returned next day to find out the fate of her papers, these two rooms had been cleared out and the chief himself led her into them and told her to sit down and write six articles on different subjects. He gave her a week to do it in, and she had a. Good reference library, with multitudes of periodicals and newspapers to help her at a pinch. If asked to define her sensations when all through those first days she sat locked up in this prison house, Milicent would have confessed to a horrible feeling of littleness, of being a swimmer in deep waters with no land in sight and the overarching heavens too far off to heed her. How she dreaded the moment when the master's eye should fall upon what she had written! The very sound Of that step in the passage had checked her pulses and frozen her feet and fingers! Well, Mr. Grainger had kept her on, but, as he always declared, it was he who had taught her all she knew about writing. Very pretty, but it is n't journalism, he had said, pulling up every flower of her fancy. Some people, he would add with a sort of indignation, some people can't learn, but I fancy you can. 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.