Saxe Holm's Stories
[by Helen Hunt Jackson]
1873
Content.
| [Draxy Miller's Dowry] [The Elder's Wife] [Whose Wife Was She?] [The One-Legged Dancers] [How One Woman Kept Her Husband] [Esther Wynn's Love-Letters] |
- [Draxy Miller's Dowry]
- [The Elder's Wife]
- [Whose Wife Was She?]
- [The One-Legged Dancers]
- [How One Woman Kept Her Husband]
- [Esther Wynn's Love-Letters]
Draxy Miller's Dowry.
Part I.
When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa. The name stamped itself indelibly upon his imagination; and when, at the age of thirty-five, he took his first-born daughter in his arms, his first words were--"I want her called Darachsa."
"What!" exclaimed the doctor, turning sharply round, and looking out above his spectacles; "what heathen kind of a name is that?"