The Precipice - Softcover
"Kate," she announced, "you look like a kind eagle."
"A wounded one, then, Honora."
"You've a story for me, I see. Sit down and tell it."
So Kate told it, compelling the history of her humiliating failure to stand out before the calm, adjudging mind of her friend.
"But oughtn't we to forgive everything to the old?" cried Honora at the conclusion of the recital.
"Oh, is father old?" responded Kate in anguish. "He doesn't seem old -- only formidable. If I'd thought I'd been wrong I never would have come up here to ask you to sustain me in my obstinacy. Truly, Honora, it isn't a question of age. He's hardly beyond his prime, and he has been using all of his will, which has grown strong with having his own way, to break me down the way most of the men in Silvertree have broken their women down. I was getting to be just like the others, and to start when I heard him coming in at the door, and to hide things from him so that he wouldn't rage. I'd have been lying next."
"Kate!"
"Oh, you think it isn't decent for me to speak that way of my father! You can't think how it seems to me -- how -- how irreligious! But let me save my soul, Honora! Let me do that!"
The girl's pallid face, sharpened and intensified, bore the imprint of genuine misery.
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About the Author:
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862 - 1935) was an American author, journalist and critic. She wrote for magazines including Century, Lippincott's Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, St. Nicholas, Wide Awake, The American Magazine, America, Harper's Weekly and San Francisco Argonaut. In these stories Peattie presented hope and refused to bend to Modernism and its disillusioned outlook on life. In 1888 she was commissioned by Chicago publishers to write a young people's history of the United States and wrote the seven-hundred page 'The Story of America' in four months. Her novel The Judge won a $900 prize from the Detroit Free Press in 1889 and was subsequently published in book form. Later in 1889 the Northern Pacific Railroad employed her to visit and report on Alaska: A Trip through Wonderland became a popular guide-book. With Scrip and Staff (1891) was a story of the children's crusade. Some time after 1890, Peattie befriended fellow writer Kate McPhelim Cleary while both were living in Nebraska. The two bonded over their financial, health and family concerns. Peattie subsequently returned to Chicago and became literary editor of the Chicago Tribune. Some time during her period in Illinois, she was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County. One of her sons was the famed botanist, naturalist and author Donald Culross Peattie (1898 - 1964).
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- PublisherAlan Rodgers Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1598187317
- ISBN 13 9781598187311
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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