Chapter II: Afterword: 400

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Isabel Clintock Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border
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Zulime Taft: The New Daughter Frontispiece

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Miss Zulime Taft, acting as volunteer housekeeper for the colony 104

At last the time came when I was permitted to take my wife--lovely as a Madonna--out into the sunshine 287

The old soldier loved to take the children on his knees and bask in the light of the fire 304

Entirely subject to my daughter, who regarded me as a wonderful giant, I paid tribute to her in song and story 322

That night as my daughters "dressed up" as princesses, danced in the light of our restored hearth, I forgot all the disheartenment which the burning of the house had brought upon me 368

The art career which Zulime Taft abandoned after our marriage, is now being taken up by her daughter Constance 400

To Mary Isabel who as a girl of eighteen still loves to impersonate the majesty of princesses 402

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A DAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BORDER