"Black was very inky and white immaculate to this son of the prairies."
"People never relish life as they do when the taste of death is still bitter between their teeth."
"Her heart was as pure as crystal."
"Women are the most conservative things alive."
"The face he turned upon me was no more the face of Minerva's lover than the sea in December is like the sea in June."
"I venture to say that very few of the dead would be entirely welcome if they returned unexpectedly to their widowed affinities."
"Nothing is so perfect a guarantee of respectability in a chance acquaintance as the names of your own friends on his visiting-list."
"Many babies and Burmese summers had exhausted all the elasticity she had ever possessed."
On the whole, 'A Romance of Summer Seas,' while it is on a less ambitious scale than 'The Veiled Doctor,' seems more natural and shows a gratifying advance along several lines.
When Miss Davis was suffering intensely in her last illness, she would pat her mother's hand and say, "We shall have our carriage when my book sells." But her unselfish dreams were not to be realized. The career which seemed so full of promise was cut short by death. Now we see through a glass darkly; when we see face to face, we shall know why this life of usefulness ended in its morning. As long as the memories of the 'lost cause' linger in her beloved Southland, so long shall the name of Winnie Davis, 'The Daughter of the Confederacy,' remain unforgotten. She has passed away, but the perfume of her noble life will not pass away.