When this story begins, Elizabeth Ann, who is the heroine of it, was a little girl of nine, who lived with her Great-aunt Harriet in a medium-sized city in a medium-sized State in the middle of this country; and that\'s all you need to know about the place, for it\'s not the important thing in the story; and anyhow you know all about it because it was probably very much like the place you live in yourself. (...) It was certainly not because they were not good, for no womenkind in all the wo.
When this story begins, Elizabeth Ann, who is the heroine of it, was a little girl of nine, who lived with her Great-aunt Harriet in a medium-sized city in a medium-sized State in the middle of this country; and that\'s all you need to know about the place, for it\'s not the important thing in the story; and anyhow you know all about it because it was probably very much like the place you live in yourself