A Daughter of the South; A War's End Romance (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...is a good deal of what seems to me good literature of an agreeable sort in some of these periodicals. Perhaps you will not find it so. In that event you have only to cast the whole lot of them aside as so much waste paper. "Pray do not trouble yourself to send an answer. The thing is of too little consequence for that. Oh, by the way, I am called to Chicago on business, so that I shall not have the pleasure of riding with you for two or three mornings to come. But my man Moses will take the mare to you every morning in order that you may give her her necessary exercise." "Upon my word Hugh is improving," thought Mrs. Will Hallam, when Gabrielle showed her the magazines, and gave her the note to read. "That is a master stroke, to set her to riding alone for a day or two. She'll find out how much his company means. I didn't think he had so much nous." But the good sister spoke none of the thoughts that were suggested to her mind by the incident. She was a woman gifted and brilliant in conversation, but she knew how to hold her tongue in leash when that seemed best. A LOST OPPORTUNITY HUMAN nature is perhaps the queerest product of creation or evolution or whatever else it is that brought all of us into being. It is never consistent with itself. It is scarcely too much to say that it is never quite candid and truthful even in its dealings with itself. When Hugh Marvin, in his note, said to Gabrielle Latour, "Pray do not trouble yourself to send an answer," he probably meant it in a way. At least he meant that she should not feel under any obligation to send an answer. Yet all that day until the time came for him to board a late afternoon train for Chicago, he found himself waiting for an answer and uneasily wondering why...