Tales of GlauberSpa Author:Catharine Maria Sedgwick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: Harper Subjects: American fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Poetry / General Poetry... more » / American / General 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 can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MR. GREEN. CHAPTER I. " And to him Euronome, Ocean's girl, gave three fair-cheeked wenches, very comely-looking creatures, to wit: Aglaia, and Euphrosyne, and Thalia the lovely." -- Hesiod. In relating some anecdotes of the life of Mr. Green, recent as the occurrences are, and true as recent, we have no fear of giving offence to himself. But as he has respectable relations and connexions, who might not relish our taking such liberties with him, we have been careful as to the designation of localities, and as to the use of names. As it is inartificial, even in telling a true story, to begin at the beginning, the reader will please to allow himself to be introduced to the family of Mr. Brown, a respectable merchant, flourishing in business, and residing in the town of Short-hills. He had an excellent wife, and three captivating daughters, Miss Barbara, Miss Betsey, and Miss Bella Brown. Miss Brown was the tallest, fairest in complexion, and stateliest in carriage. The black-eyed, black-haired brunette Betsey had a more immediate and probably more enduring witchcraft about her than her elder sister. But the fairy, blue-eyed, yellow-haired Bella bade fair to eclipse the pretensions of both. This brief description must suffice, for the present, for the " cat'log oftheir perfections." In the words of the heathen poet, quoted at th...« less