Iris 1904 . COLLEGE PREPARATORY. TKe Dream of a College Preparatory Girl BY ANNA RUSSELL COLE. IT WAS a situation conducive to dreams. In a little, square room in the garret ofan old, rambling house, built, to all appearances for the gambols of spirits—not fora dwelling place of men—a schoolgirl lounged in an old armchair, drawn up beforea fire on the hearth. The room might have been plain under the glare of day-^ light, but with the dancing shadows from the fire playing over the dark furni-ture, and softening the rough, bare, outlines of the room into ruddy uncertainty,it seemed a veritable a
Iris 1904 . COLLEGE PREPARATORY. TKe Dream of a College Preparatory Girl BY ANNA RUSSELL COLE. IT WAS a situation conducive to dreams. In a little, square room in the garret ofan old, rambling house, built, to all appearances for the gambols of spirits—not fora dwelling place of men—a schoolgirl lounged in an old armchair, drawn up beforea fire on the hearth. The room might have been plain under the glare of day-^ light, but with the dancing shadows from the fire playing over the dark furni-ture, and softening the rough, bare, outlines of the room into ruddy uncertainty,it seemed a veritable abode for the imagination. The girl in the great armchair before the firefelt this peculiar charm of the little room, for she leaned back listlessly and gazed into the fireFor a few moments she kept her finger between the leaves of a book on her lap, as if unwilling toyield altogether to the spell, but the book soon glided by degrees to the floor, and the girl becamelost in her revery. Out beyond the glowing coals before her lay the land of her imagination. It was a gloriouscountry wher
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