AS THE HART PANTETH

This American fiction novel was published in 1898.. After her release of Hearts Courageous a Washington Times reporter described her: “She is one of those delightful Southern characters whose whole personality seems to express force and romance the qualities most needed in the successful writing of modern fiction and whose charm of speech and grace of manner draw one immediately to her and hold one’s attention.� . Book excerpts:. Glenn Andrews was by every gift of na- ture a man. His sensitive expressive face his brown eyes glowing with a light that seemed to come from within his clear and resolute bearing all gave evidence of his sterling qualities. All through his college years he was known among his fellows as a dreamer. His was one of those aloof — almost morbidly solitary natures to whom contact with the world would seem jarring and out of key. The boys had nicknamed him Solitaire. He had a womanly delicacy in mor- als his sense of honor was as clean and bright as a soldier's sword. .............................................................................................. Glenn and Esther were so comfortable. How could it be winter out there. He smoked and she read him selections from his own poems— the ones she liked best. He had no idea she could read so well — it must have been her read- ing them that made them sound better than he had ever thought them before. There was a slow unfolding of her woman nature as he watched her. It was almost imperceptible yet so much surer than a sudden burst. ............................................................................................ Andrews for a man of your logic you are confoundedly disappointing. I'd have thought you'd have very fantastic ideals of marriage — of the woman that was to make your home. You claim that your philosophy is in straight lines. There are two ways of making a straight line horizontal and perpendicular then they cross. You think it is infamous to marry for money and you have tabooed your pet hobby he said with an ironical curl of the lip. Five years ago before you had got your bearings you might have humored such a whimsical freak of that in- dividuality of yours but now you would strug- gle devilishly before you would spoil your life.