“Daddy-Long-Legs” by Jean Webster

Daddy-Long-Legs:
A Comedy in Four Acts

by Jean Webster

Synopsis: 

When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him?

My Review:

⭐⭐⭐ &  ❤︎❤︎❤︎

5 stars & 5/10 hearts. This story is very humorous (the sketches are amazing xD). It ends perfectly and it has just the right amount of suspense and hinting to make it satisfying. I really enjoyed the humour (it really was very funny!) especially after I guessed the identity of Daddy-Long-Legs! ;) It is simply delightful.

A Favourite Quote: “It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones—I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be forever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.... I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not. I‘ve decided to sit down by the way and pile up a lot of little happinesses[.]”
A Favourite Beautiful Quote: “There is a March wind blowing, and the sky is filled with heavy, black moving clouds. The crows in the pine trees are making such a clamor! It ’s an intoxicating, exhilarating, calling noise. You want to close your books and be off over the hills to race with the wind.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “I trust that your secretary won’t be hurt because I pay so little attention to the suggestions offered in his letter, but I can’t help it if he is. He ’s a spoiled child, Daddy. I ’ve meekly given in to his whims heretofore, but this time I intend to be FIRM. Yours, With a Mind, Completely and Irrevocably and World-without-End Made-up. Jerusha Abbott.”

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