![]() In fact, she was eavesdropping on the nearby cluster of governesses and thinking her peers were fools to be running around rather than getting this crash course on the trials and tribulations of womanhood. ![]() She had procured a copy of Wells’s Principles and Applications of Chemistry, which lay open upon her lap, and which she was currently pretending to read. While the other children in her social set played a rambunctious game of tag in the park, Daisy took a seat under the shade of a tree and did her best not to draw attention to herself. Yet Daisy harbored hope that one day she would become a woman who made the world look twice at her-in a good way-and want to know more. At present she was a gawky, ungainly girl of thirteen, with all the despair, yearning, and awkwardness that came with it. ![]() ![]() Her nose was a trifle too large, her eyes a smidge too close together, and her mouth unfashionable. In the unlikely event that there was any doubt, her peers-fellow children of Manhattan’s four hundred finest families-took it upon themselves to point out that hers was not a face that would launch one ship, let alone a thousand. ![]()
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