A Little Girl of Long Ago by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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A LITTLE GIRL OF LONG AGO
OR HANNAH ANN
A SEQUEL TO A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK
By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS
A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
_All rights reserved_
TO EDNA ESTELLE CORNER.
THE LITTLE GIRLS OF LONG AGO ARE GROWING OLD WITH THE CENTURY, BUT GIRLHOOD BLOSSOMS AFRESH WITH SPRING AND REMAINS FOREVER A JOY.
A. M. D. NEWARK, 1897.
CONTENTS
I. 1846
II. AN INTERVIEW WITH A TIGER
III. CHANCES AND CHANGES
IV. A WEDDING
V. WINTER HAPPENINGS
VI. THE LAND OF OPHIR
VII. THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUTH
VIII. GOING VISITING
IX. ANNABEL LEE
X. WITH A POET
XI. THE KING OF TERRORS
XII. UP-TOWN
XIII. OUT-OF-THE-WAY CORNERS
XIV. AMONG GREAT THINGS
XV. THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMANCE
XVI. COUNTING UP THE COST
XVII. A GLAD SURPRISE
XVIII. THE LITTLE GIRL GROWN UP
XIX. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE
XX. MISS NAN UNDERHILL
XXI. THE OLD, OLD STORY, EVER NEW
XXII. 1897
HANNAH ANN
CHAPTER I
1846
New Year's came in with a ringing of bells and firing of pistols. Four years more, and the world would reach the half-century mark. That seemed very ancient to the little girl in Old New York. They talked about it at the breakfast-table.
"Do you suppose any one could live to see nineteen hundred?" asked the little girl, with wondering eyes.
Father Underhill laughed.
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- 2: Hanny felt curiously teased about it
- 3: Hoffman came in Continental costume
- 4: Now we have gone back to frocks and gowns
- 5: Reed went about the house sighing
- 6: And Katschina purred her tenderest welcome
- 7: Hanny drew a long breath and her eyes dilated
- 8: Presently a big cage was uncovered
- 9: Van Amburgh would come and put him through some paces
- 10: He gave Hanny a nod and laughed and joined the whistling
- 11: Biddy was shrewd enough about the pennies
- 12: And they're good to make a clam pot pie
- 13: She had changed her check for a five dollar goldpiece
- 14: Hanny doesn't seem to grow a bit
- 15: Underhill said sharply that she couldn't get ready
- 16: But when Hanny took this trouble to her father
- 17: Camomile tea is good for you when you lose your appetite
- 18: The maid said Bon jour to Nora
- 19: Dele had not written any more stories
- 20: Hanny came near to envying Daisy
- 21: Hanny found it was quite different from German
- 22: Odell had been building a new part to the house
- 23: Beekman owned no end of real estate
- 24: Underhill said rather tartly afterward
- 25: The boys at Houston Street missed Jim Underhill also
- 26: Margaret kept house for herself
- 27: Hanny brought home her telegraph message
- 28: And occasionally came over to the Underhills
- 29: There were so many boys in the Underhill family
- 30: Her stepmother wasn't much crosser than Mrs
- 31: Reed was well enough to see visitors
- 32: Underhill came over one day with the Doctor
- 33: Hanny and Daisy were deeply interested in history
- 34: Jim's friend came to wish Hanny good night
- 35: Hanny thought the dancing a bewitching sight
- 36: Reed didn't seem to get strong
- 37: Hanny was quite dazed with the conflicting claims
- 38: And there isn't any nickname for Cleanthe
- 39: Underhill was very well satisfied
- 40: Joe took her down town to the old Delmonico Restaurant
- 41: And Hanny could be learning French and German
- 42: Bounett looked like a picture in his handsome
- 43: Hanny was a little shy and undecided
- 44: Hanny took the outstretched hand
- 45: That Hanny had never seen before
- 46: French said when she had put Hanny in the hammock
- 47: And at times Hanny had to laugh
- 48: Hanny wished Charles could hear her
- 49: And Hanny must tell her about everybody in the street
- 50: Underhill exclaimed Mercy me
- 51: Beekman would keep the old city house
- 52: Odell had a peach orchard and a quince orchard
- 53: Odell was very willing to explain the processes to Hanny
- 54: Hanny did seem to know almost everything
- 55: Bristow gave Janey a beautiful
- 56: As well as to the Harlem River
- 57: Hanny opened her eyes very wide
- 58: And didn't Hanny want to join them
- 59: Odell was in an uncommon good humour
- 60: Hanny thought planting oysters a very funny idea
- 61: Odell was waiting at the uncle's
- 62: Odell took her about with him when he could
- 63: And this Hanny devoured eagerly
- 64: Clemm was trying so assiduously to hide
- 65: Hanny was quite sure she espied her
- 66: For they were illustrious in their day
- 67: Clemm brought her splint rocker out
- 68: Stevie wished she was a little brother
- 69: Dele was certainly growing prettier
- 70: And she classed Hanny and Tudie as the children
- 71: So Ben and Delia rambled about
- 72: Hanny was too shy to talk much
- 73: And just hugged Hanny to her heart
- 74: Nora Whitney was almost a head taller than Hanny
- 75: Underhill sighed a little also
- 76: Hanny asked Joe why they should
- 77: He had it filled in with book shelves
- 78: But if you went with Dele Whitney
- 79: Lest Hanny should get too tired
- 80: A Captain Alden lived in it now
- 81: Dele broke off a sprig for herself
- 82: Hanny held tight to Joe's hand
- 83: Delia began to make some notes
- 84: Hanny could hardly realise it all
- 85: Hanny displayed her sprig of hawthorn
- 86: Delia was rather careless in her attire
- 87: And Delia likes us all so much
- 88: Delia is really needed at home
- 89: Barnum could not be crowded out
- 90: New York broke out in a Jenny Lind furore
- 91: She has heard the applause many a time before
- 92: Hanny was extravagantly fond of the children
- 93: Hanny enjoyed it all very much
- 94: Kirtland took the unoccupied seat
- 95: Kirtland signalled to her hostess
- 96: Which Cleanthe saved up for her
- 97: That Hanny always connected with Mrs
- 98: And a faithful hand Anthony Woolf proved
- 99: He was most jealous of Van Doren
- 100: Hanny was upstairs reading to grandmother
- 101: Nicoll was queer and bad tempered
- 102: Harry Gaynor was gay and delightful
- 103: Williamson was forty and a widower
- 104: He saw Williamson leave the house
- 105: And Williamson had just gone away
- 106: What if she had laughed with Gaynor about him
- 107: I am glad it is not gambling debts
- 108: Delia had supposed everything would come around straight
- 109: Delia Whitney was well enough for a neighbour
- 110: Delia had hired one with a good operator
- 111: Elenora Whitney is not worth worrying about
- 112: I used to believe that I never wanted to be a clergyman
- 113: Hanny was bewildered by a familiar likeness
- 114: Daisy could hardly let Hanny go
- 115: I am so glad for Hanny to have such a friend
- 116: She roused Hanny to an unwonted brightness
- 117: Underhill into any such nonsense
- 118: Ben and Delia were tremendously interested
- 119: Hanny could not decide upon him
- 120: You went to lots of frolics before you were as old as Hanny
- 121: And you just buy that tarleton
- 122: Hanny coloured and almost sighed
- 123: Hanny was very much afraid out on the large space
- 124: Hanny was quite sure her face grew redder
- 125: Jasper said I might try the Spanish dance
- 126: And Daisy did not shine you down
- 127: Joe said Hanny had better not go down
- 128: And Hanny was invited down to tea at the Jaspers
- 129: Ben comforted her in his quiet fashion
- 130: Old Aunt Boudinot has had a stroke of paralysis
- 131: Delia was a little embarrassed at first
- 132: Underhill had really given in
- 133: Josie Dean and Charlie Reed came around in the evening
- 134: Tudie and I used to envy you the boys
- 135: James Underhill had an invitation to this also
- 136: She and Hanny were inseparables
- 137: The remembrance of it to Hanny Underhill
- 138: Hanny moved up and down slowly
- 139: Hanny looked almost as if she was disappointed
- 140: So they almost forgot about Hanny
- 141: Peter Beekman seemed devoted to them
- 142: Hanny isn't thinking about lovers
- 143: Hanny had some more schoolmates married
- 144: I thought you had gone to the fair with Hanny
- 145: Perhaps he really approved of it
- 146: I thought it was Herman Andersen
- 147: And endure with her whatever burden comes
- 148: But this had such an exquisite serenity brooding in the air
- 149: How beautifully the lashes droop over her eyes
- 150: Here it is 'Miss Nan Underhill
- 151: Father Underhill sits on the front stoop reading his paper
- 152: She draws her lover in the circle
- 153: Here was where she heard that sweet and wonderful Jenny Lind
- 154: Up on the old porch grandmamma sat and read
- 155: Lorillard's rose snuff was a great thing two generations ago
- 156: Delia to write travel letters for a weekly
- 157: When Mother Underhill feels disposed to cavil and criticise
- 158: And Barton is a thriving manufacturer
- 159: When the worst sorrow is spent