Produced by David Garcia, Woodie4 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net DAISY'S NECKLACE: And What Came of It. (A LITERARY EPISODE.) BY T. B. ALDRICH. The little dogs and all, ........ see, they bark at me! KING LEAR. NEW-YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET. CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY & CO. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, BY DERBY & JACKSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. TO C. L. F., THE NOBLE MERCHANT AND THE GOOD FRIEND, THIS BURLESQUE OF THINGS IN GENERAL, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. CONTENTS. PROLOGUE. CHAPTER I. THE LITTLE CASTLE-BUILDERS. The House by the Sea--The Round Window--God's eyes in Flowers--The Day-Dreamers--A Picture--An Angel--Old Nanny--On the Sea-Shore-- Shell-Hunting--Bell's Freak and Mortimer's Dream--Asleep. CHAPTER II. THE DEAD HOPE. Time's Changes--Fall-down Castles--Little Bell waiting--When will Father come Home?--Little Bell weary--What the Sea said--Nevermore. CHAPTER III. SOUL-LAND. Autumn and Winter--By the Fireside--Where little Bell is going--Nanny sings about Chloe--Bell reads a poem--The flight of an Angel--The Funeral--The good Parson--The two Grave-stones. CHAPTER IV. A FEW SPECIMENS OF HUMANITY. Down Town--Messrs. Flint & Snarle--Tim, the Office Boy, and the pale Book-keeper--The Escritoire--The Purloined Package--Mr. Flint goes Home--Midnight--Miss Daisy Snarle--The Poor Author. CHAPTER V. DAISY SNARLE. Sunday morning--Harvey Snarle and Mortimer--A Tale of Sorrow--The Snow-child--Mortimer takes Daisy's hand--Snarle's death. CHAPTER VI. THE PHANTOM AT SEA. A Storm in the Tropics--The Lone Ship--The Man at the Wheel--How he sang strange Songs--The Apparition--The drifting Bark. CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH THERE IS A MADMAN. Mr. Flint sips _vino d'oro_--The Stranger--The Letter--Mr. Flint Outwitted--Mr. Flint's Photograph--The Madman's Story--The Wrecked Soul--How Mr. Flint is troubled by his Conscience, and dreams of a Pair of Eyes. CHAPTER VIII. MR. FLINT IS PERFECTLY ASTONISHED, AND MORTIMER HAS A VISION. The Light Heart--A Scene--The Sunny Heart--A Dream of Little Bell--A Hint. CHAPTER IX. DAISY AND THE NECKLACE. Our _petite_ Heroine--How she talked to the Poets--The Morocco Case--Daisy's Eyes make Pictures--Tears, idle Tears! CHAPTER X. ST. AGNES' EVE. The Old Year--St. Agnes--Keats' Poem--The Circlet of Pearls--A Cloud--The Promise--Mrs. Snarle continues her Knitting. CHAPTER XI. MORTIMER HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT PUBLISHER, AND MR. FLINT MAKES A DISCOVERY. H. H. Hardwill, Publisher--Criminal Literature--Alliterative Titles--Goldwood--Poor Authors--A Heaven for them in the Perspective--Flint's Discovery, and the Horns of his Dilemma.