Mary Barton is young, kind, and beautiful—perhaps dangerously so. John Barton, her hearty and intelligent but grievously uneducated father who could never abide the gentlefolk, pours fierce love and courage into his family and work. When Mary's beautiful Aunt Esther disappears, her beauty is blamed: Not but what beauty is a sad snare.
Mary Barton is young, kind, and beautiful—perhaps dangerously so. John Barton, her hearty and intelligent but grievously uneducated father who could never abide the gentlefolk, pours fierce love and courage into his family and work. When Mary's beautiful Aunt Esther disappears, her beauty is blamed: Not but what beauty is a sad snare.