# Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890

Author: Various

Genre: Punch

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12292

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Punch%2C+or+the+London+Charivari%2C+Volume+99%2C+July+26%2C+1890+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is not so easy as it might appear to define the Hurlingham Girl with complete accuracy. To say of her that she is one whose spirits are higher than her aspirations, would be true but inadequate. For, at the best, aspirations are etherial things, and those of the Hurlingham Girl, if they ever existed, have been so recklessly puffed into space as to vanish almost entirely from view. In any case they afford a very unsubstantial basis of comparison to the student who seeks to infer from them her general character. Yet it would be wrong to assume that she has dispensed with the etherial on account of her devotion to what is solid. Indeed nothing is more certain about her than the contempt w...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-july-26-1890-12292/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-july-26-1890-12292/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/punch-or-the-london-charivari-volume-99-july-26-1890-12292/chapters/2/index.md)