Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
When I am in doubt, I talk with Cornelia; and while I am with her, my uncertainties disappear. But this subject she herself broached, at her home in one of those paradises of wood and water where Americans of her class have learned to hide their lives—for the summer.
When I am in doubt, I talk with Cornelia; and while I am with her, my uncertainties disappear. But this subject she herself broached, at her home in one of those paradises of wo...
7. BOOK TWOThere was a wedding at noon in the village church, a couple of miles from our summer community by the lake, and as most of our colony were somewhat interested in the girl, we tu...
8. BOOK THREEI have always looked with admiring astonishment on parents who have daughters on their minds, and yet are not broken by the responsibility; and next to the weight of immediate r...
9. BOOK FOURThe smooth order of Cornelia’s life was interrupted on New Year’s Eve by a distressing occurrence which I—which all of us who possess a rudimentary sense of tact—insist on calli...
10. BOOK FIVEIt is not my intention to make public, in any detail, what I know of the means by which His Excellency got young Oliver out of his New Year’s scrape in New York. In recording my...