The Story of Waitstill Baxter (Illustrated)

: her name was Patience so singularly inappropriate that everyone called her Patty. She was a fiery loving little soul with redgold hair and a taste for this world's vanities--a taste indeed seldom gratified! For Patty and her half sister Waitstill--who by the way is really the heroine--are daughters of Deacon Baxter than whom no meaner man or less indulgent parent ever lived.