Margaret, a poor young music teacher, is pressed by her mother to spend two months at Newport waiting on her rich and difficult Aunt Eliza Huell, who is ill and embroiled in a lawsuit. There she meets the opposing side’s handsome lawyer, Mr. Uxbridge, and the summer becomes the one that shapes her destiny, told in her own dry, clear-eyed voice.
A sharp, ironic story from Harper’s in 1863, by a writer now admired as an original voice of American fiction. Download the free EPUB.