Excerpt from Three Freshmen: Ruth, Fran and Nathalie

The fragrant thoughts and the purest resolutions of your youth. - Emerson.

From the day that Ruth Chittenden lay in her cradle, the most interesting of Christmas presents to a large family of doting aunts and uncles, to say nothing of her own particular father and mother, down to the day of her eighteenth "anniversary, ' there had been at least twenty opinions as to what should be done with her at each momentous step of her girl life. But Aunt Bonnie Ray, with her proverbs and saws, had carried her points from first to last.

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