Lucy Hosmer, Or, the Guardian and Ghost; A Tale of Avarice and Crime Defeated

by Daniel Pierce Thompson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 ...every body, but Lucy and you, knew before about the fellow you made such a parade for, a week or two ago here at tea." "Yes, ony think! But if I'd knowed it then, --fore I'd touch to do a thing!"--replied the beauty, shaking her head with clenched teeth and a look that was meant to carry out the sentence mere forcibly than any words she could find for expressing it. "Well, but about Lucy," resumed the former, "it has n't made her sick, has it V "No, 'spose not, but"--"But what?--have you been up to see her since?" "O yes a few minits ago, to tell her dinner was 'bout ready, and kinder talk it over a little; but she was in a taking still, and said she shouldn't want any dinner. Fore I'd cry to be-obleeged to give up such a fellow!" she added as she left the room, to resume her work. "It has pretty much done the business, I guess," muttered Old Jude to himself, with a lip curling with inward exultation ' and the stories which she will now soon hear to confirm the impression that has evidently been made, will give the finishing Wow." And the old man was not mistaken. While the heart-stricken Lucy was striving to hope against conviction, that the inference 4he woman's words and conduct had compelled her to draw, did not apply to her lover, the village gossips, one after another dropped in, full of mysterious hints concerning a certain discovery they just made, which they would not, at first, for the world tell Mr. Hosmers family, but which they finally did tell with many regrets, that Miss Lucy did not feel well enough to appear, that they might console her in her grief and disappointment. These communications, all, in some shape or other, making established facts of what was before a mat...

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Daniel Pierce Thompson (October 1, 1795 – June 6, 1868) was an American author and lawyer who served as Vermont Secretary of State and was New England's most famous novelist prior to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Daniel P. Thompson was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on October 1, 1795 and moved to Vermont with his family in 1800. He was raised in Berlin, Vermont, and graduated from Middlebury College in 1820. He then moved to Virginia, where he taught school, studied law, and attained admission to the bar before returning to Vermont to become an attorney in Montpelier, Vermont.

Influenced by James Fenimore Cooper and Walter Scott, he wrote historical adventure and romance novels, many of which feature life in Vermont.

In 1835 he authored May Martin, or the Money Diggers. Its favorable reception established his popularity, and he specialized in Vermont during the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras.

His writings include a satirizing of Anti-Masonry, The Adventures of Timothy Peacock (1835); The Green Mountain Boys (1840); Locke Amsden, or the Schoolmaster (1845); The Shaker Lovers, and Other Tales (1848); Lucy Hosmer, or the Guardian and the Ghost (1849); The Rangers, or the Tory's Daughter (1850); The Tales of the Green Mountains (1852); Gaut Gurley, a Tale of the Umbagog (1857); The Doomed Chief, or King Philip (1860); and Centeola (1864). Thompson also authored 1859's History of the Town of Montpelier.

New England's most famous novelist of the 1840s and 1850s, Thompson's work was responsible for imprinting the story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in the public's consciousness. His ability to tell action and adventure stories plainly and quickly made his novels popular well into the 1900s, and many of his books are still in print.

Thompson died in Montpelier, Vermont on June 6, 1868. He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier.