[Gutenberg 12224] • We Girls: a Home Story

"It begins right in the middle; but a story must begin somewhere.

The town is down below the hill. It lies in the hollow, and stretches on till it runs against another hill, over opposite; up which it goes a little way before it can stop itself, just as it does on this side. It is no matter for the name of the town. It is a good, large country town, - in fact, it has some time since come under city regulations, - thinking sufficiently well of itself, and, for that which it lacks, only twenty miles from the metropolis..."