The Curse of Clifton Author:Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Classic Textbooks Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and whi... more »te OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. . THE TIDE OF FATE. (CONTINUED.) Garl Kavanagh and his sister were settled in the log- cabin on the farm of Hardbargain. Carl, as an old acquaintance of the mistress, and a late labourer on the plantation, fell readily into his new business of overseeing it. Catherine began to busy herself in the management of her new and very comfortable home. Their cabin contained a sitting-room, kitchen, and two chambers. Mrs. Clifton had gratified her own kindly and benevolent disposition by adding several plain articles of furniture to the small stock possessed by the poor family. She had, besides, given Catherine a set of half-worn, white dimity curtains, and a pair of coarse, horns- made, white counterpanes. These gave an air of neatness -- approaching, I had almost said refinement -- to the sitting- room, and two little bed-rooms. Mrs. Clifton of Hard- bargain was not addicted to taking sudden likings -- indeed, though a lady of perfect frankness, benevolence, and liberality of judgment, she was cool and prudent; yet, notwithstanding this, her kindest affections were at once attracted towards Kate. It is true she had been prepared to think well of the child from an intimate knowledge of her brother Carl's honesty and intelligence; but at the first sight of Catherine, the noble countenance of the mountain-girl riveted her esteem. There are some faces which we know at a gl...« less