A Daughter of the South; And Shorter Stories (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.1892 Excerpt: ... A SUIT DECIDED. A POPULAR writer for the Cosmos Magazine of New York, having accomplished an article about the home and haunts of old Gilbert White of Selbourne, the Cosmos editors, in whose eyes the article found favor, had instructed one of their wandering artists, then in London, to go down to Selbourne and make sketches of the house and grounds and church. Robert Kenyon.the young man to whose lot fell this pleasant pilgrimage, left his lodging in town one August morning and, casting a light portmanteau and still lighter knapsack, with his staff and umbrella, into the hansom at his door, gave the driver orders to proceed to Waterloo station. Kenyon had no very clear idea of the place of his destination. He vaguely recalled Gilbert White as an amiable old parson who wrote about birds and weather, and set down the dates of the annual appearance of all things that flew and grew and blossomed in his neighborhood. The artist had put into his knapsack a roll of typed MS. sent to him by the editors, representing the impression made by Selbourne upon the author he was to illustrate; and this he meant, upon the first convenient opportunity, to consult. But mankind is apt to put off reading typed MS. It is a shade less interesting than MS. in pen and ink, and one must be born with a love for that. Kenyon, even in the short run to Dorking, where he desired to tarry on the way, found metal more attractive for his eyes than the clever American lady's views of the abode of Gilbert White. He dawdled at Dorking for a day or so, and after an enfeebling interview with Bradshaw and local railway guides, shipped his portmanteau by train to Guildford, and started south on foot. His delight was in solitary tramps, and, ere long, within thirty miles of the huge heart of Engla...