macromicros

Updated: August 16, 2026

The book opened at "Macromicros," where a brilliant verbena was crushed between the leaves, and delicate undulating pencil-lines enclosed the passage beginning, "O woman, woman, with face so pale! Pale woman, weaving away A frustrate life at a lifeless loom." Slowly the hours wore away, and at noon Elsie's body was placed in the coffin and left on a table in the room opposite the parlor.

Augusta J. Evans Wilson - Vashti: or, Until Death Us Do Part