# The opal

Author: Anonymous; Soper, James Hamlin Gardner, 1877-1939 [Illustrator]

Genre: Young women -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78640

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+opal+Anonymous%3B+Soper&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mary Elton was a girl whom her friends called unusual, and her friends’ friends, peculiar. She was young enough to be judged leniently by her elders on the ground of her immaturity, and old enough to be looked up to by her juniors as a clever woman whose character was past the formative period. An undisguised interest in her own character frequently laid her open to the charge of egotism, but she had never been accused of conceit. A sort of fundamental frankness, combined with a remarkably clear vision, was the basis of her nature. Seeing things without disguise made it possible to speak of things without reserve, and neither timidity nor politeness ever tempted her to call black white, o...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-opal-78640/chapters/1/index.md)