Sister Carrie

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.

A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss

little slip bearing

Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up.

leather snap purse

far-off supremacy

beyond her interest

undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind

wooing and fascinating eye

"At about twenty minutes of five."