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Rebecca Harding Davis

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. . .Tiger still kept licking her hand, as it hung by her side: it was cold, and trembled as he touched it. She waited a moment, then pushed him from her, as if his touch, even, caused her to break some vow. He whined, but she hurried away, not waiting to know how he came, or with whom. Perhaps, if Dr. Knowles had seen her face as she looked back at him, he would have thought there were depths in her nature which his probing eyes had never reached.

The wheels came close, and directly a cart stopped at the gate. It was one of those little wagons that hucksters drive; only this seemed to be a home-made affair, patched up with wicker-work and bits of board. It was piled up with baskets of vegetables, eggs, and chickens, and on a broken bench in the middle sat the driver, a woman. You could not help laughing, when you looked at the whole turn-out, it had such a make-shift look altogether. The reins were twisted rope, the wheels uneven. It went jolting along in . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Don’t forget where you are as you read Harding’s first novel—on the cusp of the Civil War, Lincoln just elected, American industrialization in its infancy, mass immigration coupled with xenophobia, Women’s rights cloaked in race & social reform bc that was socially acceptable (before black men gaine

This is a great early 19th Century novella by R. H. Davis. She's a great author and you'll notice a bit of "strangeness" about two-thirds through the novella. She has a "dark" mind about the world which is always nice :)