Bab
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
date: 0000-00-00
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full text: BAB: A SUB-DEB, by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART. Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K. Posted to Wiretap in July 1993, as subdeb.txt. Bold and italics are depicted _thusly_. This book was written by a 16 year old girl, and the spelling is as it appears in the original paper edition (please do not correct it.) This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. BAB: A SUB-DEB MARY ROBERTS RINEHART AUTHOR OF "K," "THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE," "KINGS, QUEENS AND PAWNS," ETC. ---- NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1916 AND 1917 BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE SUB-DEB II THEME: THE CELEBRITY III HER DIARY IV BAB'S BURGLAR V THE G.A.C. CHAPTER I THE SUB-DEB: A THEME WRITTEN AND SUBMITTED IN LITERATURE CLASS BY BARBARA PUTNAM ARCHIBALD, 1917. _DEFINITION OF A THEME:_ A theme is a piece of writing, either true or made up by the author, and consisting of Introduction, Body and Conclusion. It should contain Unity, Coherence, Emphasis, Perspecuity, Vivacity, and Presision. It may be ornamented with dialogue, discription and choice quotations. _SUBJECT OF THEME:_ An interesting Incident of My Christmas Holadays. _Introduction:_ "A tyrant's power in rigor is exprest."--DRYDEN. I HAVE decided to relate with Presision what occurred during my recent Christmas holaday. Although I was away from this school only four days, returning unexpectedly the day after Christmas, a number of Incidents occurred which I believe I should narate. It is only just and fair that the Upper House, at least, should know of the injustice of my exile, and that it is all the result of Circumstances over which I had no controll. For I make this apeal, and with good reason. Is it any fault of mine that my sister Leila is 20 months older than I am? Naturaly, no. Is it fair also, I ask, that in the best society, a girl is a Sub-Deb the year before she comes out, and although mature in mind, and even maturer in many w…