Eleanor's victory

Eleanor’s Victory. lady of fifteen; but as the ankle so revealed was rounded and slender, it would have been hypercritical to have objected to the shortness of the skirt, which had evidently been outgrown by its wearer. Then, again, this lonely traveller was not a young but pretty. In spite of the shortness of her frock and the shabbiness of her straw bonnet, it was impossible for the most spiteful ot the British misses to affirm the contrary.