Title:  The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors

Author:  Douglass Sherley et al.

Release Date:  February 26, 2005 [EBook #15179]

Language:  English

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The Inner Sisterhood.

The Inner Sisterhood

T.I.S.

—­A social study in high colors—­

by

DOUGLASS SHERLEY

WHO WROTE

The Valley of Unrest:  A Book without a Woman

1884 IMPRIMARY Louisville, Kentucky John P. Morton and company

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  Copyrighted according to Law,
  1884,
  By Douglass Sherley.

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The Inner Sisterhood.

Dedicated to

One of the Sisterhood.

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VII

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Just After the Ball: 

Miss Kate Meadows.

ROBERT FAIRFIELD, LOVER: 

Miss Belle Mason.

THE BUZZ-SAW GIRL: 

Miss Alice Wing.

FLIRTING FOR REVENUE ONLY: 

Miss Rose Clendennin.

Mother and Daughter: 

Miss Sophia Gilder.

A CASE OF COMPOUND FRACTURE.

Miss Mary Lee Manley.

Platitudes and Pleasures: 

Miss Lena Searlwood.

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I

       A Bit of Sweet Simplicity
       In Blue.

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Just After The Ball.

The storm-door closes with a bang!  My escort, a stupid fellow, has said “Good-night!” He drives down the street in his old rattletrap of a coupe.  I am so glad he is gone!  And yet I am always afraid of burglars—­or—­something dreadful, whenever I go into the house alone so late at night.  I bolt the inside door.  I mount the hall-chair, left waiting by papa, and, trembling with a nameless fear, turn out the gas and leave myself in darkness.  I make two vain dashes for the stair; a third, and I have found it.  I grope for the heavy rail and go rapidly up, two steps at a time,