Category: Novels
I have been working among my flowers all the morning, digging, weeding and transplanting, and then stopping a little to rest. My roses are perfect beauties this year, while my white lilies are the wonder of the town, and yet my heart was not with them to-day, and it was nothin...
She took the name again, and with it, also, Margaret, feeling that Daisy was far too girlish an appellation for one who clad herself in the deepest mourning, and felt, when she...
10. CHAPTER IX.--DAISY, TOM, AND THAT OTHER ONE.Watching, waiting, hoping, saying to herself in the morning, "It will come before night," and saying to herself at night, "It will be here to-morrow morning." Such was Daisy's l...
7. CHAPTER VI.--EXTRACTS FROM DIARIES.Well, that matter is over, and I can't say I am sorry, for the expression in that Thornton's eye I do not care to meet a second time. There was mischief in it, and it made one t...
9. CHAPTER VIII.--DAISY'S LETTER."_Dear, Dear Guy_:--I am all alone here in Rouen, with no one near me who speaks English, or knows a thing of Daisy Thornton, as she was, or as she is now, for I am Daisy Thornt...
1. CHAPTER I.--EXTRACTS FROM MISS FRANCES THORNTON'S JOURNAL.I have been working among my flowers all the morning, digging, weeding and transplanting, and then stopping a little to rest. My roses are perfect beauties this year, while my w...
4. CHAPTER III.--EXTRACTS FROM DAISY'S JOURNAL.Daisy McDonald Thornton's journal,--presented by my husband, Mr. Guy Thornton, who wishes me to write something in it every day; and who, when I asked him what I should write, s...
13. CHAPTER XII.--IN THE SICK ROOM.Julia had the small-pox in its most aggravated form. Where she took it, or when, she did not know; nor did it matter. She _had_ it, and for ten days she had seen no one but her...
6. CHAPTER V.--THE DIVORCE.He had expected to meet Daisy in the hall, but she was not in sight, and her mother, who appeared in response to the card he sent up, seemed confused and unnatural to such a deg...
14. CHAPTER XIII.--DAISY'S JOURNAL.To-morrow I am to take my old name of Thornton again, and be Guy's wife once more. Nor does it seem strange at all that I should do so, for I have never thought of myself as not...
3. CHAPTER II.--EXTRACTS FROM GUY'S JOURNAL.Three months married. Three months with Daisy all to myself, and yet not exactly to myself either, for of her own accord she does not often come where I am, unless it is just as...
5. CHAPTER IV.--AUTHOR'S STORY.Guy Thornton was not a fool, and Daisy was not a fool, though they have thus far appeared to great disadvantage. Beth had made a mistake; Guy in marrying a child whose mind was...
8. CHAPTER VII.--FIVE YEARS LATER.Such was the notice which appeared in a daily Boston paper one lovely morning in September five years after the last entry in Miss Thornton's journal. Guy had reached the point...
12. CHAPTER XI.--AT SARATOGA.There were no more letters from Mrs. Guy Thornton until the next Christmas, when another box went to little Daisy, and was acknowledged as before. Then another year glided and a...
2. part I am not so certain. Guy would pet her and caress her all the time"O, please don't touch me. It is too warm, and you muss my dress," I have heard her say more than once when he came in and tried to put his arm about her or take her in his lap.