Elsie Venner : a Romance of Destiny

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Elsie Venner : a Romance of Destiny
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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Her father could influence, but not govern her Old Sophy, born of a slave mother in the house, could do more with her than anybody, knowing her by long instinctive study. The other servants were afraid of her. Her father bad sent for gov- ernesses, but none of them ever stayed long. She made them nervous ; one of them had a strange fit of sickness ; not one of them ever came back to the house to see her. A young Spanish wom- an who taught her dancing succeeded best with her, for she had a passi
...on for that exercise, and had mastered some of the most difficult dances.
Long before this period, she had manifested some most extraordinary singularities of taste or instinct. The extreme sensitiveness of her father on this point prevented any allusion to them ; but '.here were stories floating round, some of them Bven getting into the papers, — without her name, of course, — ^which were of a kind to excite intense euriosity, if not more anxious feelings. This tlno^ ELSIE VENNEE. 183 was certain, that at the age of twelve she was missed one night, and was found sleeping in the open air under a tree, like a wild creature.


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