Julia Kavanagh (1824-1877), Daisy Burns (1853), volume 2, Tauchnitz edition Produced by Daniel FROMONT COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS. VOL. CCLXIV. DAISY BURNS BY JULIA KAVANAGH. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. TAUCHNITZ EDITION By the same Author, NATHALIE 2 vols. GRACE LEE 2 vols. RACHEL GRAY 1 vol. ADELE 2 vols. A SUMMER AND WINTER IN THE TOW SICILES 2 vols. SEVEN YEARS AND OTHER TALES 2 vols. FRENCH WOMEN OF LETTERS 1 vol. ENGLISH WOMEN OF LETTERS 1 vol. QUEEN MAB 2 vols. BEATRICE 2 vols. SYBIL'S SECOND LOVE DORA 2 vols. SILVIA 2 vols. BESSIE 2 vols. JOHN DORRIEN 2 vols. DAISY BURNS; A TALE BY JULIA KAVANAGH, AUTHOR OF "NATHALIE." _COPYRIGHT EDITION_. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LEIPZIG BERNHARDT TAUCHNITZ 1853. JULIA KAVANAGH DAISY BURNS. CHAPTER I. It has chanced that for a week or more this narrative has been laid aside. This evening I thought I would resume it, and, before doing so, I looked back on what I had written. Alas, how long it takes us to forget the angry and evil feelings of our childhood! How I traced, in this record of the past, a lingering animosity against the enemy of my youth, which years, it seems, had failed to efface from my heart! How sad and humbling a lesson has this been to me, of passion warping judgment and holy charity forgotten! I have represented Miriam without one redeeming trait, and conscience tells me that she was not thus. I now remember many touches of human feeling and human kindness, which, I feel it remorsefully, need not have been omitted, when all that was evil was so faithfully registered.