Excerpt from Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls But this is beside the mark, and I must not allow myself to wander off. I am too apt to be disour sive. When I had to write leading articles for our manuscript periodical, Jack used to laugh at me, and say, If it wasn't for Eleanor's disentangling your sentences, you'd put parenthesis within par enthesis till, when you got yourself into the very inside one, you'd be as puzzled as a pig in a labyrinth, and not know how to get back to where you started from. And I remember Clement who generally disputed a point, if possible - said, How do you know she wouldn't get back, if you let her work out each train of thought in peace? The curt, clean-cut French style may suit some people whose brains won't stretch far without getting tired; but others may have more sympathy with a Semitic cast of mind. 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.