Ann and Her Mother

O. DOUGLAS
AUTHOR OF THE SETONS, PENNY PLAIN, ETC.
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
ANN AND HER MOTHER. I
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To ISOBEL CUNNINGHAM
To whatsoever things are fair We know, through you, the road; Nor is our grief the less thereby; O swift and strong and dear, Good-bye.
In this age of opulence and refinement whom can such a character please? Such as are fond of high life will turn in disdain from the simplicity of a country fireside. Such as mistake ribaldry for humour will find no wit in this harmless conversation: and such as have been taught to deride religion will laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

Mrs. Douglas and her daughter Ann sat together in their living-room one November night.