Lady Larkspur

Lady Larkspur is a romantic short story written by Meredith Nicholson. Nicholson was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a political figure, and a diplomat. Excerpt: "The girl's curiosity is roused by the sudden appearance of strangers from the unknown world beyond, whom she mystifies by her40 quaint old-worldishness. Searles had taken an old theme and given a novel twist to it. The solution of the mystery of the father's exile and an amusing complication of lovers afforded a suspensive interest well sustained to the end. There were innumerable charming scenes, as where the girl in the outlandish costume in which she roamed the hills perches on a boulder and recites the "Iliad" to her suitors. In the last act she appears at a ball at a country house in sophisticated raiment, and the story ends in the key of mirth in which it began."