Mam'selle Jo

This novel by Harriet Theresa Comstock is a story of a woman who lacked beauty and all the marvelous things in life but still found success through prayer. She made a promise to take what was possible from every bit of happiness and incorporate what she could into devotion and kindness. This was the result of having raised her eyes from the earth which had been her battlefield. Excerpt from the book «Jo Morey had always attracted him; her mind, her courage, her defiance of conditions, called forth all that was fine in him. Without fully understanding he recognized in her the qualities that, added to his own, would secure the success he craved. So he taught her, read with her, and made her think. He was not calculating and selfish, the crude foundation was but the safety upon which he built a romance that was as simple and pure as any he had ever known. The plain, brave girl with her quiet humor and delicate ideals appealed mightily to him. His emotions were in abeyance to his good common sense, so he and Jo had planned for a future—never very definite, but always sincere.»