Daisy by Susan Warner
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DAISY.
BY ELIZABETH WETHERELL,
AUTHOR OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD," "QUEECHY," ETC., ETC.
[Illustration: Floral Squiggle]
LONDON:
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED, WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
[Illustration: Frontis "'And you love Jesus, Darry,' I said." _Page 59_ ]
CONTENTS.
PAGE CHAPTER I. MISS PINSHON 9
CHAPTER II. MY HOME 27
CHAPTER III. THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE 45
CHAPTER IV. SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE 68
CHAPTER V. IN THE KITCHEN 97
CHAPTER VI. WINTER AND SUMMER 119
CHAPTER VII. SINGLEHANDED 149
CHAPTER VIII. EGYPTIAN GLASS 165
CHAPTER IX. SHOPPING 185
CHAPTER X. SCHOOL 205
CHAPTER XI. A PLACE IN THE WORLD 226
CHAPTER XII. FRENCH DRESSES 244
CHAPTER XIII. GREY COATS 275
CHAPTER XIV. YANKEES 297
CHAPTER XV. FORT PUTNAM 320
CHAPTER XVI. HOPS 338
CHAPTER XVII. OBEYING ORDERS 356
CHAPTER XVIII. SOUTH AND NORTH 379
CHAPTER XIX. ENTERED FOR THE WAR 392
DAISY.
CHAPTER I.
MISS PINSHON.
I want an excuse to myself for writing my own life; an excuse for the indulgence of going it all over again, as I have so often gone over bits. It has not been more remarkable than thousands of others. Yet every life has in it a thread of present truth and possible glory. Let me follow out the truth to the glory.
The first bright years of my childhood I will pass. They were childishly bright. They lasted till my eleventh summer. Then the light of heavenly truth was woven in with the web of my mortal existence; and whatever the rest of the web has been, those golden threads have always run through it all the rest of the way. Just as I reached my birthday that summer and was ten years old, I became a Christian.
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- 2: And I was left alone with Aunt Gary
- 3: Preston said we must wait at that place for another train
- 4: I have recommended Miss Pinshon
- 5: And Preston and I enjoyed ourselves
- 6: Preston went into such a laugh at that
- 7: Miss Pinshon turned to Preston's mother
- 8: Miss Pinshon next applied herself to me
- 9: But Miss Pinshon arranged the ruffle and the pin
- 10: Magnolia lay some miles inland
- 11: And a beautiful magnolia had been planted or cherished there
- 12: That first evening at Magnolia
- 13: As we sped joyfully away through the oaks
- 14: Preston sent a boy in search of Darius
- 15: Preston led off in a new direction
- 16: People do not put vases on tombstones
- 17: Preston was unwilling and resisted
- 18: I insisted that Preston should stop the man
- 19: Miss Pinshon called me to her at once
- 20: We'se all so glad Miss Daisy come to Magnoly
- 21: Miss Pinshon and Preston at the other
- 22: If Miss Pinshon had not been there
- 23: Miss Pinshon helped me by closing the window
- 24: But Miss Pinshon never troubled herself about his words
- 25: I thought surely Magnolia was a lovely place
- 26: Darry was startled and greatly concerned
- 27: Do little missie ask de Lord for help
- 28: I think Darry made me no answer
- 29: Darry stood ready to help me to dismount
- 30: Preston having just dismounted
- 31: Save that I would have nothing to do with Preston
- 32: And Miss Pinshon might come in any minute
- 33: Directed and overseen by Miss Pinshon
- 34: And bade Uncle Darry good night
- 35: Did you strike Uncle Darry yesterday
- 36: I didn't touch Darry to hurt him
- 37: Uncle Randolph never forbids his hands to have meat
- 38: Why shouldn't Darry have wages
- 39: Preston stopped talking and began to take care of me
- 40: Of the oppressor and the oppressed
- 41: Did Darry have a prayer meeting without leave
- 42: He didn't do nothing to hurt Darry
- 43: Before my Aunt Gary and Miss Pinshon came in
- 44: Said Preston And there you lie
- 45: I shall try and not have her mope
- 46: Miss Pinshon tried the multiplication table
- 47: Reckon Miss Daisy do what she like
- 48: Darry and Maria together gave me a seat
- 49: For Jem had gone upstairs with a tray and glasses
- 50: Where should Christmas festivities come from
- 51: Miss Pinshon was not given to expressing what she felt
- 52: I turned mutely towards Preston
- 53: Edwards would make any objection
- 54: At which Preston frowned and whistled
- 55: Dere's tree Jems dat is ser'ous
- 56: And the Sunday evenings in the kitchen
- 57: Our neighbourhood reached so far
- 58: I found that Darry knew something about letters
- 59: Darry and Maria were in my counsels
- 60: Chiefest of all these were my poor friends at Magnolia
- 61: The florist stood waiting my pleasure
- 62: I pondered till my Aunt Gary broke out upon me
- 63: And Miss Pinshon certainly tried her best
- 64: A walk with Miss Pinshon alone
- 65: Miss Pinshon looked up again at me
- 66: But Darry told me of an empty barn not far off
- 67: Save the work for Miss Pinshon
- 68: Which showed what the great Rameses looked like
- 69: Which Miss Pinshon had pressed and crowded during the winter
- 70: Dere is more reasons for t'ings
- 71: Dere no one can hinder now massa so fur
- 72: Jem was given to large sized words
- 73: Miss Pinshon and the overseer agreed in shunning it
- 74: Do you take too long drives in your pony chaise
- 75: Miss Pinshon always begins with mathematics
- 76: Sometimes I cannot do the synchronising
- 77: But will Miss Pinshon go to Melbourne
- 78: The devil is not in Magnolia more than anywhere else
- 79: I can see now his touch of his cap to Miss Pinshon
- 80: Are Miss Pinshon done gone away
- 81: And now that I had quitted Magnolia
- 82: Sandford welcomed me with great kindness
- 83: Sandford had to spend in Washington
- 84: She ought to be her own mistress
- 85: Glad to get back to my ancestors
- 86: But you are getting to be not little Daisy
- 87: Sandford liken me to Egyptian glass
- 88: Sandford made a rapid calculation
- 89: Who held the merino in his hand
- 90: And the velvet was sixty dollars
- 91: The dreadnought was exactly half that sum
- 92: Sandford employed the same one
- 93: And that in the plaid my mother would not know me
- 94: Between adorning and being adorned
- 95: Where they had been disapproved
- 96: It would have vexed me from anybody else
- 97: Sandford never could do an ungentlemanly thing
- 98: There is nothing made without trimming
- 99: Ricard had offered to show me my room
- 100: And curtseyed to my conductress
- 101: Lansing looked up with a perplexed face
- 102: That unlocked door had not greatly troubled me
- 103: Yet criticism never touched Mme
- 104: Girlish simplicity had no place
- 105: Miss Pinshon had kept me on short allowance
- 106: Clair when I got back to the house
- 107: Jupon attended a little French Protestant chapel
- 108: Clair paused in her talk and threw a glance in my direction
- 109: Therefore the world knoweth us not
- 110: I had just denied myself this pleasure
- 111: Cardigan when we lived in Broadway
- 112: But I saw that while Miss Lansing and Miss St
- 113: Miss Lansing was herself of the favoured class
- 114: It was furnished with dark chintz
- 115: I had lost myself at first going into the greenhouse
- 116: How much it mattered to Miss Cardigan
- 117: And Miss Cardigan looked at me
- 118: But Miss Cardigan assured me I should be home in good season
- 119: Perhaps because Miss Cardigan placed me in front of it
- 120: Following Miss Cardigan to the little tea table
- 121: Miss Cardigan and I came to be very dear to each other
- 122: Preston has leave of absence this summer
- 123: Exclaimed Miss Macy as she saw me
- 124: Clair was perhaps the only exception to the general rule
- 125: Here is Denon here is Laborde
- 126: Clair always has the prize for compositions
- 127: There is a great deal of a plomb there
- 128: Lansing prick a little pin into her that will bring it out
- 129: A sample is taken from what is
- 130: Miss Cardigan looked at me again
- 131: Clair held herself entirely aloof from me
- 132: Miss Daisy they belongs to master
- 133: Ricard does not like to have the sun shine into this room
- 134: Sandford I would go with her when she pleased
- 135: But the omnibus quite belonged to fairyland too
- 136: Sandford soon found a colonel and a general to talk to
- 137: I have heard that her mother was a marketwoman
- 138: Sandford if you will indulge me
- 139: And Miss Cardigan has all these
- 140: The last landed me in a gravelled path
- 141: My cousin Preston Preston Gary
- 142: Sandford broke into a fit of laughter
- 143: The mosses and ferns and lichen
- 144: I listened and he talked and fanned me
- 145: Sandford insisted I must be dressed
- 146: Must one be ungraceful in order to be military
- 147: Preston looked at me curiously
- 148: And in the evening I plied Preston with questions
- 149: I asked why Preston called him a great man
- 150: Sandford decreed that I must stay as long as possible
- 151: And shining down the camp alleys
- 152: But Preston was not in a mood to bear laughing at
- 153: And again exclaimed in a sort of suppressed shout Gary
- 154: Thorold has begged me to introduce him to you
- 155: Suppose we were unjustly attacked
- 156: 'if a man smite thee on the cheek
- 157: Thorold was infinitely pleasant to me
- 158: Thorold pointed out localities
- 159: Thorold touched his cap and left me
- 160: Sandford was on the piazza when I came down
- 161: Thorold came and carried me off
- 162: Thorold in intervals of dancing
- 163: How could they help submitting
- 164: I detailed at length my Southern experience also
- 165: Thorold brought me into his own tent
- 166: Thorold seemed a little bit grave and silent for a moment
- 167: Sandford privately for this suggestion
- 168: You must not go again with Thorold
- 169: Sandford objected very strongly
- 170: Whenever Thorold was my partner
- 171: I could not help watching Faustina
- 172: When Thorold and his companion passed me
- 173: Being unluckily with me when Thorold came
- 174: Thorold might dance with Faustina if I were not there
- 175: And Thorold had not been near us for several days
- 176: How I came to cry before Thorold
- 177: Thorold 'whatsoever ye do' 'whether ye eat or drink
- 178: Thinking I had better be demure again
- 179: Sometimes I had a glimpse of Thorold
- 180: Do these little dances unfit you for duty
- 181: Thorold turned on me again a wonderfully gentle look
- 182: You know what soldiership ought to be
- 183: Thorold pointing out its different features
- 184: Sandford was safe in Washington
- 185: Daisy Randolph you are a Southerner
- 186: Mississippi followed South Carolina
- 187: I consulted with Miss Cardigan
- 188: And Miss Cardigan looked concerned at me
- 189: Jefferson Davis is my President
- 190: I did not know what had become of Ransom
- 191: Then Thorold must be her relation
- 192: Made me look suddenly at Thorold
- 193: And Thorold presently broke it
- 194: It appeared that Thorold was very hungry
- 195: Said Thorold with a change of tone
- 196: While Thorold was smiling down into my face
- 197: I have kissed Daisy very often before now
- 198: I had never seen Thorold laugh as he did then
- 199: Which he had applied to Thorold
- 200: But Miss Cardigan and Thorold would not be resisted
- 201: And I think Thorold rather liked what he saw
- 202: I do not know what Thorold thought
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