Daisy Miller a Comedy in Three Acts Author:Henry James General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is a black and white 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 c... more »an select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MRS. COSTELLO, to her companions. It's just twelve o'clock; we certainly can't wait any longer. MISS DCEANT. I don 't believe he's coming at all! MES. COSTELLO. Ah, if I 've only brought on a headache for nothing! BEVERDY, side. Won't he catch it when he arrives ? (They pan into the hotel, the waiter leading the way.) SCENE THIED. EDGENIO, Then WINTERBOURNE And The WAITER. Eugenio comes out of the hotel, then looks about him and begins to call. He is without his hat and satchel. EUGENIO. Meester Randolph! Meester Bandolph ! Confound that infernal child -- it's the fifth time this morning that I've chased him round the garden ! (stands calling again.) Meester Eandolph! Meester Randolph! He is always there when he's not wanted and never when he is, and when I find him I have n't even the right to pinch his ear ! He begins to kick like a little mule, and he has nails in his boots -- for the mountains. Meester Randolph ! Meester Randolph! Drat the little wretch -- I 'm a courier, not a nurse ! (Exit to the right, while Winterbourne comes down from the hotel, followed by a waiter, the same who has just appeared, carrying a little tray with a service of black coffee.) WINTERBOURNE. I will have my coffee here, it 'a so close in the hotel. (The waiter places the tray on a small table, which he draws up to a bench. "Winter- bourne takes out a card, on which, on his pocket-book, he writes a few words.) And please to take that card to the lady whose name I have Written there, and ask her when it will be convenient for her to see me. THE WAITER, looking...« less