原文 (英语)

Introductory.--How We Met. The papers which are here collected enter in some detail into the success and failure of a large number of young people of my acquaintance, who are here named as Alice Faulconbridge, Bob Edmeston, Clara, Clem Waters, Edward Holiday, Ellen Liston, Emma Fortinbras, Enoch Putnam, brother of Horace, Esther, Fanchon, Fanny, cousin to Hatty Fielding Florence, Frank, George Ferguson (Asaph Ferguson's brother), Hatty F