Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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and you might never see anything to wound you. I know, dear, said Lucy. I know you never meant to make me unhappy. . . . It is atrouble that has come on us all. You have more tobear than I have; and you gave him upwhen . . . you did what it must have been very hard to do. They were silent again a little while, sitting with clasped hands, and cheeks leaned together. Lucy, Maggie began again, he struggled too. He wanted to be true to you. He willcome back to you. Forgive him: he will be happy then. ... These words were wrung forth from Maggies deepest soul with an effort like the convulsedclutch of a drowning man. Lucy trembled and was silent. A gentle knock came at the door. It was Alice the maid, who entered and said: — I dared nt stay any longer, Miss Deane. Theyll find it out, and therell be such anger atyour coming out so late. Lucy rose and said, Very well, Alice; in a minute. • I m to go away on Friday, Maggie, she added, when Alice had closed the door again. 46 AMERICAN ART
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Maggie and Lucy. From The Mill on The Floss! Drawn by Harper. When I come back, and am strong, they will let me do as I like. I shall come to you when Iplease, then. Lucy, said Maggie, with another great effort, I pray to God continually that I may never bethe cause of sorrow to you any more. She pressed the little hand that she held between hers, and looked up into the face that wasbent over hers. Lucy never forgot that look. Maggie, she said, in a low voice that had the solemnity of confession in it, you are betterthan I am. I cant— She broke off there and said no more. But they clasped each other again in a last embrace. Mr. Harper also provided several admirable pictures for a de luxe edition of George Eliotspoems, including his conception ofFedalma, the Spanish gypsy. In the ranks of the numerous clever illustrators who furnish artistic riches to Our Little Ones magazine, we frequently find St. John Harper, many of his charming pictures of and for childrenhaving appeared in its

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