This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...resolute young man, and also very mnch in love, he determined to show his uncle that there was at least one woman in the world who was not suspicious. "Well, uncle, good-by: be sure and not forget your promise. I am convinced I can prove all you desire." When Harry had left the room, his uncle sat for a time in deep ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...resolute young man, and also very mnch in love, he determined to show his uncle that there was at least one woman in the world who was not suspicious. "Well, uncle, good-by: be sure and not forget your promise. I am convinced I can prove all you desire." When Harry had left the room, his uncle sat for a time in deep meditation. A close observer might have seen a suspicious moisture about his eyes. "Ada!" he murmured to himself. "Strange that his choice should bear that name! But should she be judged for that? Because one Ada was false and broke a man's heart, is it to say that all who bear that name should be the same? Poor boy! I hope his realities may be as bright as his dreams. At any rate. I will put her to the test, and if she proves lierself wortby of him. then God bless them both and make them happy!" p In a neat little cottage standing somewhat hack from the village street, shaded from the sun by drooping willows and lofty elms, and roses that clambered in charming profusion over the rustic porch, lived Ada Hayward and her widowed mother. Captain Hayward had died when Ada was an infant, and she had grown up to girlhood guided by her mother, who took the place of both parents to her. Mrs. Hayward had married at an early age. Some said that the marriage had not been one wholly of the girl's heart, and that when Captain Hayward led her to the altar her heart had been given to another. But of this Ada knew nothing, and she often wondered that her mother bore her lather's loas so well. Still, she honored the memory of that father, whom she scarcely remembered, with girlish devotion. A year before the opening of our story she had met Harry Ashton while on a visit to the oity. It had been clearly a case of love at first sight, ...
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