Excerpt from Wild Nell: The White Mountain Girl

As in the hands of a skillful lapidary, the little stone, which had seemed to our unpracticed eye insignificant and worthless, is transformed into the lustrous diamond, sparkling and flashing with regal splendor, so in life, the richest gems are sometimes found hidden beneath a rough exterior, which, when subjected to the refining process of education, aided and crowned by the great purifier, Religion, come forth from the crucible, radiant in beauty, and inexhaustible in a wealth far exceeding natures rarest and most precious stones.

Such a gem was "Wild Nell, " the heroine of the following pages, and in tracing her life, from its first, rude uncultivated state, to a degree of moral perfection too seldom attained here, the author has aimed to show the importance of a right culture of the mind and heart.

Pride, arising either from birth, station or wealth, or all combined, holds a potent sway in this our land, crushing in its despotic grasp, the noblest intellects, and blighting the holiest, purest affections of our nature, with its upas breath.

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