A Girl of the Period

A GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
By MRS. OLIPHANT
With Illustrations by R. A. BELL.
CHAPTER I.
BLANCHE FONTAINE was a girl who was not very happy at home: at least she thought so, which in many cases comes to the same thing. She was the only child of her parents, who believed on their side that no girl in England had so many reasons for being happy. They had no other object so dear to their hearts as this: that their child should be surrounded with everything that is best and most delightful in life; that she should have not a wish that was unfulfilled within limitations, of course); that she should know everything and see everything that a young lady moving in the best society ought to know and see. And they spared themselves no trouble in this desire for Blanche's happiness. Many long vacations which the Judge would have given a great deal to spend at home in his house in the country, resting from his many labours, he had spent instead in Italy, when it was too hot, or in Switzerland when it was too wet, for pleasure, in order to please Blanche. In winter or spring he was often left alone for months together in his big dull old London house on the same argument. As for Lady Fontaine no wash

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