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The Path of Duty, and Other Stories By: Harriet S. Caswell (1834-) |
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AND OTHER STORIES, BY H. S. CASWELL,
Montreal:
JOHN LOVELL, 28 AND 25 ST. NICHOLAS STREET.
1874.
CONTENTS.
CLARA ROSCOM; OR, THE PATH OF DUTY; Page. CHAPTER I.
A Sudden Bereavement 1
CHAPTER II.
Success at School 6
CHAPTER III.
Clara at Mrs. Wentworth's Boarding School 12
CHAPTER IV.
Governess in Mr. Leighton's Family 18
CHAPTER V.
Willie Leighton's Return from England 26
CHAPTER VI.
An Evening Party 32
CHAPTER VII.
Failing Health of Clara's Mother 39
CHAPTER VIII.
A Bright Dream and Peaceful End 45
CHAPTER IX.
Friendly Attentions 56
CHAPTER X.
A Surprise 60
CHAPTER XI.
Embarrassing Interviews 65
CHAPTER XII.
A New England Home 76
CHAPTER XIII.
New Occupations 83
CHAPTER XIV.
School at Mill Town 91
CHAPTER XV.
A Happy Re union 96
CHAPTER XVI.
Miss Simmond's Story 105
CHAPTER XVII.
Penitent and Forgiven 117
CHAPTER XVIII.
A New Joy 123
CHAPTER XIX.
Uncle Charles 127
CHAPTER XX.
Lights and Shadows 132
CHAPTER XXI.
Reconciled 140
CHAPTER XXII.
Clara's Marriage 145
CHAPTER XXIII.
A Pleasing Incident 148 TERRY DOLAN 151 THE FAITHFUL WIFE 163 EMMA ASHTON 175 THOUGHTS ON AUTUMN 199 WANDERING DAVY 205 LOOKING ON THE DARK SIDE 215 EDWARD BARTON 223 THE WEARY AT REST 233 THE RAINY AFTERNOON 239 THE STUDENT'S DREAM 251 UNCLE EPHRAIM 257 STORY OF A LOG CABIN 265 HAZEL BROOK FARM 281 OLD RUFUS 301 THE DIAMOND RING 311 THE UNFORTUNATE MAN 323 THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE 329 ARTHUR SINCLAIR 335 THE SNOW STORM 355 THE NEW YEAR 361 EARNEST HARWOOD; OR, THE ADOPTED SON 367
CHAPTER I. A SUDDEN BEREAVEMENT.
"Awake, my dear child, awake!" These were the words I heard: I started
up, gazing in a bewildered manner into the face of my mother, who had,
with some difficulty, succeeded in arousing me from the sweet, healthful
sleep of childhood. My mother drew nigh to me and whispered, "My dear
Clara, your papa is dying." With a frightened cry, I threw my arms
around her neck, and begged her to tell me what had happened. I was
unable to comprehend the meaning of her words. Since my earliest
recollection, my father had never experienced a day's illness, and so
the reader may be able to form some idea of the shock occasioned by her
words uttered, as they were, at the hour of midnight. When my mother
had succeeded in soothing me, in some degree, to calmness, she informed
me, in a voice choked with sobs, which, for my sake, she tried to
suppress, that my father had, two hours since, been stricken with
apoplexy, in so severe a form that his life was despaired of. She
further informed me that his attending physician thought he would not
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