A Little Journey in the World

A Little Journey in the World is a story by Charles Dudley Warner. The introductory sketch says the story is an attempt to trace the demoralization in a woman's soul of certain well-known influences in our existing social life. The sketch adds that in no other way could certain phases of our society be made to appear so distinctly as when reflected in the once pure mirror of a woman's soul.

A character named Margaret is described as just turned twenty, with large gray eyes that were uncommonly soft and clear and abundant hair, brown with a touch of red in it in some lights. A character named Henderson has something to show Hollowell in his office that is of a nature greatly to interest that able financier. The text records the newspapers saying that the affair was the most brilliant the metropolis had ever seen, and the narrator takes the simple words addressed by the earl to Margaret, when he said good-night, at their full value.