By Estes and Lauriat

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University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

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Narcissa

Dreaming

Waking

In Verona

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NARCISSA.

NARCISSA. THE ROAD TO ROME.

Part I. DREAMING.

Part I.

Narcissa was sitting in the doorway, feeding the young turkeys. It was the back door of the old gray house,—no one would have thought of sitting in the front doorway,—and there were crooked flagstones leading up to it, cracked and seamed, with grass growing in the cracks. Close by the door-post, against which the girl was leaning, stood a great bush of tansy, with waving feathery leaves and yellow blossoms, like small gold buttons. Narcissa was very fond of this tansy-bush, and liked to pluck a leaf and crush it in her hands, to bring out the keen, wholesome smell. She 

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