SISTER DOLOROSA
AND
POSTHUMOUS FAME
BY
JAMES LANE ALLEN
Copyright Edition
EDINBURGH
DAVID DOUGLAS, CASTLE STREET
1892
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for
David Douglas
London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
TO HER
| FROM WHOSE FRAIL BODY HE DREW LIFE IN THE BEGINNING, FROM WHOSE STRONG SPIRIT HE WILL DRAW LIFE UNTIL THE CLOSE, THESE TALES, WITH ALL OTHERS HAPLY HEREAFTER TO BE WRITTEN, ARE DEDICATED AS A PERISHABLE MONUMENT OF INEFFABLE REMEMBRANCE |
PREFACE TO BRITISH EDITION.
The Author is glad to know that a British Edition of his Kentucky Talesis to be brought out by Mr. David Douglas of Edinburgh.
Generations ago his mother's ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland;generations ago his father's came from England. Toward the threecountries his attention was fondly turned in early life; and theinterest then begotten has been but fostered since.
It is with peculiar pleasure, therefore, that he now avails himself ofthe chance to ride hither and thither through these lands in his ownconveyance—albeit the vehicle, a little book, may turn out a slowcoach.
James Lane Allen.
Christmas Eve,
Lexington, Kentucky, 1891.
CONTENTS.
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| Sister Dolorosa, | 13 |
| I. II. III. IV.V. VI.VII. VIII.IX. X.XI. XII. | |
| Posthumous Fame; or A Legend of the Beautiful, | 163 |
| I. II.III. IV. |
SISTER DOLOROSA.
I.
When Sister Dolorosa had reached the summit of a low hill on her way tothe convent, she turned and stood for a while looking backward. Thelandscape stretched away in a rude, unlovely expanse of grey fields,shaded in places by brown stubble, and in others lightened by pale, thincorn—the stunted reward of necessitous husbandry. This way and that