American scenery (1854) (14597556700)

Identifier: americanscenery00rich (find matches)

Title: American scenery

Year: 1854 (1850s)

Authors: Richards, Thomas Addison, 1820-1900. (from old catalog)

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Publisher: New York, G. A. Leavitt

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ho were stillbold enough to approach her. They were few, indeed, anddaily diminishing in number, in the frostiness of her fine ladyairs; for to men untaught in the gallantries of courtly society,there is no object in the world so awe-inspiring as the presenceof a proud and beautiful woman. While her timid suitors thus one after the other withdrew,there was one, the humblest of them all, who still lingered inher train. Night after night, poor Davy, as he was called,would come to her fathers hearth, and, while talking of thechase or of the crops with the honest woodman, would watchthe loved features of his absent-minded or preoccupied Kitty.Now Kitty had a sort of liking for Davy, but it had neverentered into her haughty head that he, of all her associates,could by any possibility aspire to any higher sort of interestin her heart; and, for this very reason, no doubt, she oftendeigned to show the lad much more consideration than shebestowed upon his betters. Indeed, she honoured him with

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KITTY, THE WOODMANS DAUGHTER. 127 confidences she would have shrunk from imparting to any ofher own sex. She would tell him of her proud dreams andexalted fancies. Once she treated him to a full length pictureof the extraordinary gentleman for whom she was saving upher little heart; a picture in which the unhappy Davy coulddetect no resemblance whatever to himself. The winter was the golden season of our heros life, forthen he enjoyed an access to the shrine of his silent worship,from which he was barred in the warm months by the inter-vention of more favoured supplicants. These brighter days ofthe year—sadder ones to Davy—were again returning; but,as a last ray of his passing sunshine, Kitty had, to his greatdelight, invited him to accompany her on a visit to the Falls.Nature was donning her gayest attire,_ and her hopeful smileswon responsive gladness from the blithe heart of our Kitty,dreamily expectant of coming pleasures. Davy thought thathe had never seen her looking so beau

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