The Actress' Daughter: A Novel

"I have seen one whose eloquence commanding, Roused the rich echoes of the human breast; The blandishments of wealth and ease withstanding, That hope might reach the suffering a...

Freddy Richmond went because she was a very discreet young lady and it was "proper" to attend divine worship, and Miss Richmond never shocked the proprieties. Georgia went becau...

It was a bright, breezy May morning, just cool enough to render a fire pleasant and a brisk walk delightful. The sunshine came streaming down through the green, spreading boughs...

There was an instant death-like pause, and all gazed, white with horror, on the scene before them. Freddy lay perfectly motionless, and Georgia, terrific in her roused wrath, st...

It was not in human heart, much less in a heart that loved her still, to gaze on that death-like face unmoved; and Richmond's stern gaze relaxed, and his brow lost its cold seve...

It was a pleasant morning in early spring. The sunshine lay in broad sheets of golden light over the fields, and tinted the tree-tops with a yellow luster. The fresh morning air...

"Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only 'It might have been.' God pity them both, and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of...

"Her cheek too quickly flushes; o'er her eye The lights and shadows come and go too fast, And tears gush forth too soon, and in her voice Are sounds of tenderness too passionate...

With every nerve strained, every feeling wrought to the highest pitch of excitement, Georgia had listened; but at this last moment the overstrung tension gave way, and, for the...

"Lor! Lor! what a night it is any way. Since I was first born, and that's thirty-five--no, forty-five years come next June, I never heern sich win' as that there, fit to tear th...

Elsewhere these three years might have wrought strange changes, but they made few in good old Burnfield. The old, never-ending, but ever new routine of births, and deaths, and m...

they'll never let me there I know! I don't care for that either. I was made bad, and if they send me to the bad place for it, they may. Em Murray'll go to Heaven, because she's...

"And after that you must transport yourself over to Burnfield with all possible dispatch, and procure a cart, car, gig, wagon, carriage, wheelbarrow, or any other vehicle wherei...

"And the stately ships go on To the haven under the hill, But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still."

It was drawing toward sunset of a clear, bright, breezy day, when a crowd of people "might have been seen," and were seen, too, hurrying down to one of the wharves of B----, to...

The little town of Burnfield contained but one school, within the old brown walls and moss-grown eaves of which the "fathers of the hamlet" for many a generation had sat at the...

Richmond House at last was full of guests; every room was filled; peals of laughter, and silvery voices of ladies, and the deeper tones of gentlemen, made music through the long...

The road to the old house was as familiar to Miss Jerusha as a road could well be to any one, yet she found it extremely difficult to make her way to it to-night. The piercing s...

"They stood apart. Like rocks which have been rent asunder, A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder Shall wholly do away, I ween, The works of t...

"Bride, upon thy wedding day Did the fluttering of thy breath Speak of joy or woe beneath? And the hue that went and came On thy cheek, like lines of flame, Flowed its crimson f...

Two weeks passed. Charley was quite well again, and had left no effort untried to reinstate himself in the good graces of Georgia. As that young gentleman, in the profundity of...

"And underneath that face, like summer's ocean, Its lips as moveless and its cheek as clear, Slumbers a whirlpool of the heart's emotions-- Love, hatred, pride, hope, sorrow, al...

"His boyish form was middle size, For feat of strength or exercise Shaped in proportion fair; And hazel was his eagle eye, And auburn of the darkest dye His short and curling ha...

There were great doings going on up at the "house." All Burnfield was in a state of unprecedented excitement about it. The last Presidential election, the debut of the new schoo...

"Oh, Georgia, where have you been? Do I really see you, or do I dream? So often have I dreamed you were restored, and woke to find it a dream. Is this a delusion like the rest?"

"Radiant daughter of the sun, Now thy living wreath is won, Crowned with fame! Oh! art thou not Happy in that glorious lot? Happier, happier far than thou, With the laurel on th...

All that day little Georgia went wandering aimlessly, restlessly, through the woods, possessed by some walking spirit that would not let her sit still for an instant. She had ke...

Merry days those were in Richmond House, with the old halls resounding with music and laughter, and the hum of gay voices, from morning till night. Astonished and awed were the...