4 BOUVERIE STREET AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, E.C.
1913
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
FOREWORD
THERE are many girls who, on leaving School for Home-life, find the year or two following rather "difficult." They seem often not quite to know what to do with themselves, with their time, with their gifts; and they are apt to fall into some needless mistakes for want of a guiding hand. My wish, in writing this tale, has been to give such girls a little help. It may be that one here or there, in reading it, will find out how to avoid such mistakes from the struggles, the defeats, and the non-defeats of Magda Royston.
AGNES GIBERNE.
EASTBOURNE.
CONTENTS
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