Items related to Mistress Joy; a tale of Natchez in 1798
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...rose-tree to bring forth lilies. And through it all there grew upon her a horror of the big river, a nameless terror of its slow, insolent urgency. She felt that it was bearing her on to a passage of life for which she was not prepared. She knew that it was leaving behind and between her and all the happy, simple past, a weltering waste which she could never recross. The long voyage gave much time for thought, but Joyce could not think; she could only muse and dream and wonder. A fat little Creole on the boat--he scarcely reached her shoulder, and she was serenely unconscious of his very existence--brought out his guitar and sang many exceedingly amorous French songs for her behoof, all supported by a battery of killing glances, with windy sighs for buglers. The twanging of the guitar formed a background for her thoughts. These were often of Jessop, but oftener of the new life to which she was going. Jessop had left Natchez before themselves. He was bound--or so they understood--for New York, where he had relatives, and he would return to meet them at Natchez in the summer. Joy wondered idly if he would write to her, and, if so, whether his letters would be at all like that first one, and if, amid all her novel surroundings, she should find herself so changed that they would no longer affect her as had that first love-letter. She marveled a little that there had been, in the course of Jessop's passionate farewell, nothing said of writing. He had exacted what seemed to her the quite unnecessary assurance that she would never forget him, that she would not learn to love another; but he had neither asked her to write nor promised that he himself would do so. At last the slow, silent, monotonous voyage was nearing its end. Hour by hour the river widened. Back f...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153974479
- ISBN 13 9781153974479
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages102
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