This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... V. Crumpet-Jflotow, or (Jiwirnbe auto Obedience is better than sacrifice.--1 Samuel xv. 22. A Lady, with her two little daughters, came from her Northern home to visit her brother, who had married a Southern heiress, and resided on a beautiful estate on the Roanoke. Mrs. Livingston was an excellent as well as an accomplished woman; a love of flowers was, with her, almost a passion. The lavish profusion of spring flowers had ceased when she came, yet numbers that were beautiful brightened, in their order of succession, the fields, the woods, and meadows; many that the strange lady and her little daughters had never seen, except it be in a greenhouse. At the breakfast table, the very first morning after their arrival, the theme of conversation was flowers, as it might be supposed; and the lady inquired eagerly which of the lovely handmaids of Flora were out in their court attire--in actual service of their Queen, at this time. f Many were named and described, though none seemed so much to excite her admiration as the gorgeous TrumpetFlower, which she expressed an anxious desire to see. "Oh, mamma," cried Gertrude, "let us children take a walk out in the woods, and get you these beautiful flowers. Cousin Charles will show us the way, will you not, Cousin Charles?" looking at a handsome, intelligent boy, who sat silently watching his two pretty little cousins, in their innocent delight. "Yes, surely I will," the little boy answered; "so let us set "out as soon as breakfast is over. I know where there are a great many Trumpet-Flowers; the hedge around the orchard is covered with them." " Do you not remember, my son," said Charles's father, "that I have told you the dew on the Trumpet-Flower is poisonous? It is too early; you had better defer...