Category: Novels
Old Deacon Marshall sat smoking beneath the maple tree which he had planted many years before, when he was scarcely older than the little girl sitting on the broad doorstep and watching the sun as it went down behind the western hills. The tree was a sapling then, and himself...
"It will seem a young eternity until you come home," said William, clasping Jessie's hand. "Good-bye," he added, as "all aboard" was shouted in his ear, and as he turned away hi...
4. CHAPTER IV.--JESSIE AND ELLEN.It was a glorious afternoon, and not a single feathery cloud flecked the clear blue of the sky. The refreshing rain of the previous night had cooled the sultry August air, and a...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--EXPLANATIONS.After Jessie's return to the city, several days had elapsed ere she met with William; and when at last she did, he saw at once that there was a change in her demeanor,--that she...
6. CHAPTER VI.--OLD MRS. BARTOW.The good lady sat in her chamber wiping the perspiration from her ruddy face, and occasionally peering out into the pleasant street, with a longing desire to escape from her sel...
2. CHAPTER II.--MR. GRAHAM AND JESSIE.She was a little fat, black-eyed, black-haired girl, with waist and ankles of no Lilliputian size, and when at last Walter dared to steal a look at her, she had already divested...
7. CHAPTER VII.--HUMAN NATURE.It was the night of Charlotte Reeves' grand party, which had been talked about for weeks, and more than one passer-by paused in the keen February air to look at the brilliantly-...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--THE STRANGER NURSE.The regular boarders at the ---- Hotel were discussing their dinner with all the haste and greediness which characterizes their Eastern brethren. The first and second courses ha...
1. CHAPTER I.--THE INMATES OF THE FARM-HOUSE.Old Deacon Marshall sat smoking beneath the maple tree which he had planted many years before, when he was scarcely older than the little girl sitting on the broad doorstep and...
10. CHAPTER X.--A DISCLOSURE.Much surprise was expressed, and a good deal of interest manifested, when it was known that the handsome house up-town which had recently been bought by a stranger it was said,...
16. CHAPTER XVI.--THANKSGIVING DAY AT DEERWOOD.The dinner table was nicely arranged in the "best room" of the farm-house, and Jessie Graham, with a happy look on her bright face, flitted in and out, arranging the dishes a li...
9. CHAPTER IX.--NELLIE.The winter sun was setting, and its fading light fell upon the golden hair and white, beautiful face of Nellie, who lay upon the lounge in the room where Walter's mother died, a...
15. CHAPTER XV.--GLORIOUS NEWS.There was a package for Walter, who had now been some months in California,--a package of letters and papers both,--and with a beating heart he sat down to read, taking Mr. Grah...
3. CHAPTER III.--EIGHT YEARS LATER.It is the pleasant summer time, and on the college green groups of people hurry to and fro, some seeking their own pleasure beneath the grateful shade of the majestic elms, othe...
11. CHAPTER XI.--THE NIGHT AFTER THE BURIAL.Down the lane, over the rustic bridge beneath the shadow of the tasseled pines and up the grassy hillside, where the headstones of the dead gleamed in the warm sunlight, the lon...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--A RETROSPECT.The flowers in the garden and the leaves on the trees were withered and dead. The luxuriant hop-vine, which grew about the farm-house door, had yielded its bountiful store, and...
12. CHAPTER XII.--A CRISIS.The next morning, Mrs. Bellenger, Jessie and Walter returned to the city, the latter promising his family that he would if possible obtain leave of absence from his business for...
17. CHAPTER XVII.--CONCLUSION.Four years have passed away since that Thanksgiving dinner, and for the deacon, who, then, did not expect to see another, there seem to be many yet in store. Hale, hearty and ha...