Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host and storyteller, John Haggardorn.

I've got a great short story for you today called Marjorie Daw. The writer was Thomas Bailey Aldrich. It's a short story

told through a series of letters exchanged between two friends. In today's parlance, you could say it was

an email exchange between John

Fleming and Edward Delaney. The narrative begins with Fleming, a young man confined to his home

in New York City due to an injury. Feeling isolated and frustrated, he becomes increasingly

moody, particularly after being unable to join Delaney on a

planned summer trip to New Hampshire. In an effort to lift Fleming spirits, Delaney begins to share

a narrative about his neighbors, the Dawes, specifically focusing on their daughter, Marjorie.

And that's where the story begins.

We share part one of the story today, and part two, in our next episode, coming Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern.

Hope you enjoy it.

Part one. Dr. Dylan to Edward Delaney, Esquire at the Pines, near Rye, New Hampshire, August 8th, 1872.

My dear sir, I am happy to assure you that your anxiety is without reason.

Fleming will be confined to the sofa for three or four weeks,

and will have to be careful at first how he uses his leg.

A fracture of this kind is always a tedious affair.

Fortunately, the bone was very skillfully set by the surgeon,

who chanced to be in the drugstore where Fleming was brought after his fall,

and I apprehend no permanent inconvenience from the accident. Fleming was brought after his fall, and I apprehend no

permanent inconvenience from the accident. Fleming is doing perfectly well physically, but I must confess

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