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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Missy - A Novel - -Author: Miriam Coles Harris - -Release Date: July 3, 2012 [EBook #40129] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISSY *** - - - - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Cathy Maxam, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40129 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/001.png" alt="title page" title="title page" /> @@ -577,7 +537,7 @@ rapidly, and while all her movements showed energy, she was not bustling. She was so <i>petite</i> she was not severe: that was all that saved her. Her face was not pretty, her complexion was colorless, her eyes very -light, her nose <i>retroussé</i>. Her hair was soft and fine +light, her nose <i>retroussé</i>. Her hair was soft and fine and waving, and of a pretty color, though not light enough to be flaxen, and not bright enough to be golden. It had the fortunate attribute of looking picturesque @@ -595,7 +555,7 @@ reward; for no ornaments could have brought color to her face, or added any grace to its irregular outline,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> and her arms and hands would have been spoiled by rings and bracelets: every link would have hid a beauty. -To-night she wore a soft gray silk, with crêpe lisse +To-night she wore a soft gray silk, with crêpe lisse ruffles at the throat and elbows, and grey silk stockings and pretty low shoes with high heels. Putting one hand on the mantel above her, she stretched out @@ -653,7 +613,7 @@ hungry. She had a passionate love for her mother, who, since the death of her stepfather, had depended much upon her; and towards her young stepbrother, now on this October night, bringing home an unwelcome -fiancée, she had felt a sort of tigerish mother +fiancée, she had felt a sort of tigerish mother love. There were seven years between them. She had always felt she owned him—and though bitterly jealous of the fond and blind devotion of her mother @@ -897,7 +857,7 @@ a worldly, pleasure-seeking maturity, had ill pre<span class="pagenum"><a name=" the poor woman for her dreary doom. She had fitted herself to it with a bitter philosophy; for do we not all fit ourselves to our lot, in one way or -another. "<i>L'homme est en délire s'il ose murmurer</i>," +another. "<i>L'homme est en délire s'il ose murmurer</i>," but it is to be hoped Heaven is not always critical in the matter of resignation. Harriet Varian had submitted, but she was in the primer of Christian principle, @@ -1384,7 +1344,7 @@ I want to read her a receipt for soup to-morrow."</p> the dining-room, so the cook came, and Missy read her the receipt for the new soup, and then another receipt that had fallen into desuetude, and might be -revived with benefit to the ménage. And then she +revived with benefit to the ménage. And then she gave her orders for breakfast, and charged the cook with a message for the clam man and the scallop man, and the man who brought fish. For at Yellowcoats @@ -2487,7 +2447,7 @@ that poor young thing! How could she have married him? I would give worlds to know her history. <i>He</i> isn't capable of a history. I suppose she must have been very poor, and forced into the marriage by her -parents. Nothing else can account for such a <i>mésalliance</i>."</p> +parents. Nothing else can account for such a <i>mésalliance</i>."</p> <p>When she entered the parlor, St. John was sitting by his mother's sofa. "How is our young @@ -4027,7 +3987,7 @@ service you want. Now, to be frank with you, Mr. Andrews, you have just twice as many servants as you need. But maybe you like to have a great many; some people do. I don't, you know. I can't bear to -have a servant in the house who has no <i>raison d'être</i>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> +have a servant in the house who has no <i>raison d'être</i>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> Half your servants have no reasonable excuse for being in your house, except that they want your money."</p> @@ -4050,7 +4010,7 @@ don't suppose you'll have much company?"</p> <p>"Then you do not want a very pretentious one. A good plain cook—unless you want a great many -<i>entrées</i> and great variety."</p> +<i>entrées</i> and great variety."</p> <p>"Oh, as to that, I am thankful if I get three courses. The present cook began bravely, but has @@ -4066,7 +4026,7 @@ cook."</p> <p>"Why must she be a plain cook?"</p> <p>"Because," said Missy, artlessly, "if she is a plain -cook and doesn't understand <i>entrées</i> and all that, she +cook and doesn't understand <i>entrées</i> and all that, she will help in the washing, and it would be <i>such</i> a blessing if you did not have to have a fourth woman in the house."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p> @@ -4283,7 +4243,7 @@ woman who had arisen to welcome him, the kindness of the one who had been kneeling beside his little outcast, the air of order, luxury, peace, all filled him with a sense that he had been living in another world, -on the other side of the arbor-vitæ hedge. He was, as +on the other side of the arbor-vitæ hedge. He was, as has been said, a silent man, and one of those straightforward men who never seem to think that they need to speak when they have nothing to say. He was not @@ -4687,7 +4647,7 @@ lumbering, and caught sight of a heavy vehicle coming up the hill towards them.</p> <p>"It's the stage!" cried Gabby, growing interested. -"And there's Léon, and there's Bridget, and there's +"And there's Léon, and there's Bridget, and there's Alphonsine, and all of 'em."</p> <p>Jay at this news set up a great shout, and started @@ -4708,7 +4668,7 @@ sat bent up like a bow, with years of long and lazy driving; his hat pushed a little back on his head. He nodded indifferently to Missy. It was all he did to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> any one, so no one could complain. Beside him sat -Léon, dark and scowling; behind them sat Michael, +Léon, dark and scowling; behind them sat Michael, red and wrathful; behind him again, the dismissed cook, laundress, nurse, and last of all, Alphonsine. It was the wreck of a household, indeed. Missy felt a @@ -5495,7 +5455,7 @@ washed her hands of the matter.</p> to come if she is not induced by the prospect of a good home and good wages. She will probably come."</p> -<p>"And the nurse; is she not a sort of protegée of +<p>"And the nurse; is she not a sort of protegée of yours? Perhaps if you would kindly give her some idea of her duties it might help her."</p> @@ -5511,7 +5471,7 @@ to such airs (now that he had got his questions answered and there was a reasonable prospect of hot water and clean towels).</p> -<p>"She is not a protegée of mine at all," returned +<p>"She is not a protegée of mine at all," returned Missy. "All I know about her, however, is in her favor. She will, I think, take good care of the children. She will take her instructions best from you, and @@ -5620,7 +5580,7 @@ her thoughts. She felt as if some one had given her a blow on <i>her</i> ear, and sent all the blood tingling to her brain. Finally she got up, picked up Jay's hat, which he had left on the field, and the scissors, and -the basket, which had been overturned in the mêlée.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> +the basket, which had been overturned in the mêlée.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> She put the flowers back into it, angry and ashamed to see how her hand shook, and shutting the greenhouse door, slowly went out of the garden. Where @@ -5846,7 +5806,7 @@ hoped that they might never, never cross each other's paths again.</p> <p>Perhaps he would close the house and go away. -She hoped her precious protegées would not give him +She hoped her precious protegées would not give him satisfaction, and then he would have to go away. But then came second thoughts, soberer and less hopeful. Was it best for the children to stay at home to-day? @@ -6769,12 +6729,12 @@ improved, and he took an interest in their lessons, and made them tell him every night what they had been learning. As Eliza was herself their teacher, this gratified her very much. She was a steady, sensible young -woman, and was in reality a protegée of Missy's. +woman, and was in reality a protegée of Missy's. Missy had had her in her Sunday-school class, had prepared her for confirmation, and had never ceased to look after her and advise her; and had told a very naughty "story" when she denied to Mr. Andrews that -the nurse elect was any protegée of hers. But in certain +the nurse elect was any protegée of hers. But in certain crises the most virtuous of women will say what is not true.</p> @@ -7096,7 +7056,7 @@ said, "Missy, I wish you'd get the card."</p> <p>"I have been waiting some time," said Missy.</p> <p>"Well, then," said Miss Varian, pleasantly, "write -out a list of Balzac, beginning with 'Les Petites Misères<br /> +out a list of Balzac, beginning with 'Les Petites Misères<br /> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">de la Vie Conjugale'—translated, of course, for</span><br /> Goneril can hardly read English, let alone French. I <i>ought</i> to have a French maid."</p> @@ -7104,7 +7064,7 @@ Goneril can hardly read English, let alone French. I <p>"Surely," said Missy, "if you want to read Balzac."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span></p> <p>"I do want to read him, every line," returned her -aunt. "'Les Petites Misères.' Well, let me see—what +aunt. "'Les Petites Misères.' Well, let me see—what else haven't I read of his?"</p> <p>Missy paused with her pencil suspended over the @@ -7133,7 +7093,7 @@ Varian, a little tartly.</p> <p>"I, oh, certainly," said Mr. Andrews, recalling himself from what seemed a fit of absentmindedness. "Some of the names of Balzac's books. Let me see, -'César Birotteau,' 'Le Père Goriot'—"</p> +'César Birotteau,' 'Le Père Goriot'—"</p> <p>"Oh, I don't mean those. I've read all those, of course. I'd like some of the—well, some of the ones @@ -7200,7 +7160,7 @@ others.</p> <p>The next evening promptly upon the arrival of the carriage from the train, Eliza and Jay brought over -"Les Petites Misères," and another of Balzac for Miss +"Les Petites Misères," and another of Balzac for Miss Varian from the library, and the last "Saturday Review," "Revue des Deux Mondes" and "Punch" for Miss Rothermel. Missy would not even take them off @@ -8100,7 +8060,7 @@ women but Goneril proved to have any head in such an emergency. Missy tried to be comforted by the smallness of the material injury. But the desolation and disorder of the pretty rooms! In her own, Missy -fairly cried. She felt completely <i>dépaysée</i>. A few +fairly cried. She felt completely <i>dépaysée</i>. A few hundred dollars and a few weeks would put it all in order again, but Missy was not in a philosophic mood. She felt herself an outcast and a wanderer, and turning @@ -9921,7 +9881,7 @@ made as Missy was, do anything unnatural to her for longer than a day or two. It was quite in character for her to lay out new parts to act, but equally in character for her to throw them aside impatiently, and -fall back into her standard <i>rôle</i>. She not unfrequently +fall back into her standard <i>rôle</i>. She not unfrequently declared to herself, I will be this, I will be that, but she always ended by being Missy. So that it was not surprising that when at last the house was ready for its @@ -9957,7 +9917,7 @@ class="cap" /> <p class="cap_1 noin">For the second day, the only visitors from the cottage were Jay and Eliza. Gabby only looked askance at the house, from over the -arbor vitæ hedge; it was a foregone conclusion +arbor vitæ hedge; it was a foregone conclusion they would not be troubled much by her. Mr. Andrews had now begun his daily journeys to town. Though still obliged to wear his arm in a sling, he @@ -11608,7 +11568,7 @@ russe. They must have a feast, nothing else could take its place. So that afternoon she took a sudden resolution. She would make a sacrifice of her own feelings. She would go to the Andrews' cottage -and give Jay his fête there.</p> +and give Jay his fête there.</p> <p>"Do you think it's wise, Missy?" said her mother faintly.</p> @@ -11669,7 +11629,7 @@ not its mature development be. Jay himself had tired her out. He had been willful, selfish, wanting in love to her; his party seemed to have turned him into somebody else. She again concluded he wasn't worth -it all; but since she had begun the fête, she must go +it all; but since she had begun the fête, she must go through with it. It gave her rather an uncomfortable feeling to be going into the house she had forsworn so vehemently. It was doubly hard now that Jay's naughtiness @@ -11730,7 +11690,7 @@ keep her resolution, and the household which she had reconstructed.</p> <p>The bonbons looked less pretty to her than when -she bought them; she wished the fête was over, and +she bought them; she wished the fête was over, and she herself out of this uncomfortable house. The waitress, having ended her little gossip in the kitchen, came in and laid the cloth and closed the windows, @@ -12481,7 +12441,7 @@ it arose from annoyance about the disrespect to Missy, or from disapprobation of the ducks, which were dried up and skinny, and one could fancy had a taste of smoke. The dessert was tame, and the coffee tepid. -Contrasted with the perfection of the ménage next +Contrasted with the perfection of the ménage next door, it was a very shabby dinner, and Mrs. Eustace felt really vicious when she watched Miss Rothermel, scarcely attempting to taste the successive failures set @@ -12848,7 +12808,7 @@ she was almost inclined to quarrel with her new-found friend. As they sat around the lamp, Mrs. Smatter became a little restless because the conversation showed a tendency to degenerate into domestic or commonplace -channels; she strove to buoy it up with æsthetic, +channels; she strove to buoy it up with æsthetic, speculative, scientific bladders, as the case might be. Missy pricked one or two of these, by asking some question which wasn't in Mrs. Smatter's catechism; @@ -13199,7 +13159,7 @@ him; he can only blame her for misleading him—"</p> short—too short, ah, by how much! they were already at the steps. Missy glanced up and saw more than one eager and curious pair of eyes gazing down upon -the tête-à-tête. It was over, it was ended, and Missy, +the tête-à -tête. It was over, it was ended, and Missy, as in a dream, walked up the steps and into the chattering groups that stood about the summer parlor. She knew all now—what she had thrown away, what her @@ -13230,7 +13190,7 @@ What was the use of anything? No use.</p> <p>Miss Rothermel looked uncommonly well, they said to each other driving home, almost pretty, really, and -so young. What could that tête-à-tête have signified +so young. What could that tête-à -tête have signified between her and Mr. Andrews? He was evidently out of spirits. What an odd thing it would be after all if he had really liked her. There was something queer @@ -13352,7 +13312,7 @@ not quite determined.</p> passes me to understand how you can exist. I suppose, though, one doesn't mind it so much as one gets—I mean—that is—as mamma says—at my age—" And -she stopped with a pretty naïve embarrassment, which +she stopped with a pretty naïve embarrassment, which was surprisingly well done. She recovered from it to say:</p> @@ -13854,7 +13814,7 @@ his vocation, and much more agreeable and well behaved than in anybody else's presence. And Mrs. Hazard Smatter was quite unable to ask him questions or to gain information from him. Very soon after -his arrival, oppressed no doubt by the mediæval murkiness +his arrival, oppressed no doubt by the mediæval murkiness of the atmosphere, and the unfamiliarity of the situation, she quietly gathered up her notes and queries and prepared to wing her way to more speculative @@ -14419,7 +14379,7 @@ renewed his correspondence with her. Some violent scenes occurred. She professed penitence and promised amendment. Her next move was a bungling conspiracy with her lover to poison her husband. A horrid -exposé of the whole thing threatened. It was with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[Pg 383]</a></span> +exposé of the whole thing threatened. It was with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[Pg 383]</a></span> difficulty suppressed, the man fled, leaving her to bear all. In her rage and despair she took poison, and barely escaped dying. It was managed that the thing @@ -14518,7 +14478,7 @@ self-indulgent, but he always took a cup of tea from her hands, which she made him out of a little silver tea-pot that she had used since he was a baby a week old. And the cup out of which he drank it, was of -Sêvres china, a part of the cadeau brought to the pretty +Sêvres china, a part of the cadeau brought to the pretty young mother's bedside in that happy week of solicitude. This little service was almost the only souvenir they had brought of the past life now laid away by @@ -15552,386 +15512,6 @@ way upon upon the...."</p> gauze de Chambery...."</p></blockquote> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Missy, by Miriam Coles Harris - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISSY *** - -***** This file should be named 40129-h.htm or 40129-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/1/2/40129/ - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Cathy Maxam, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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