Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 169
h,and out of sight. Half the day the daisy grieved over whatshe had seen, refusing to admit that theweather was anything but gray and cold,though the sun shone brightly. But in themellow red-gold afternoon, with its long sooth-ing of bees and breezes, the happyprospect began to tell on herof the… … ALL OF MY FAMILY DIE FOR LOVE ! rocking herself in an ecstasy. To perish, in-deed ; but in perishing to see above me thatsmile like a soft sunrise spreading over the ten-der face, and to know that it is owing to me! i895-] TO DESPERATION. 685 And, strong in her imagining, the daisy beganrehearsing…
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