Chapter 1. Our Agreeable Fellow Passenger
_ CHAPTER I. OUR AGREEABLE FELLOW PASSENGER
In the same spirit in which a solicitous mamma or benevolent middle-aged friend will sometimes draw forth from the misty past some youthful misdeed, and set the faded picture up before a girl‘s eyes, framed in fiery retribution--for an object lesson and a terrible example--so will I, benevolent, if not middle-aged, put before the eyes of my sisters a certain experience of mine. I expect my little act of self-abasement for the instruction of my sex to have this merit: the picture I will show you is not dim with age, and not cut and cramped to fit the frame of a special case. The colours are hardly dry, and both picture and tale are quite unvarnished.
I am a plain American girl of twenty. I am not so plain, as I come to think of it, as one or two others I know--not being distinguished even by unusual or commanding ugliness. I spent last winter in San Francisco with relatives, and intended retu

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