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Title: Emilie the Peacemaker

Author: Mrs. Thomas Geldart

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EMILIE THE PEACEMAKER.

BY MRS. THOMAS GELDART.

AUTHOR OF "TRUTH IS EVERYTHING;" "NURSERY GUIDE;" "STORIES OF ENGLAND
AND HER FORTY COUNTIES;" AND "THOUGHTS FOR HOME."

MDCCCLI.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of
God.... Matt v. 9.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II.

THE SOFT ANSWER

CHAPTER III.

THE LESSON AT THE COTTAGE

CHAPTER IV.

THE HOLIDAYS

CHAPTER V.

EDITH'S TRIALS

CHAPTER VI.

EMILIE'S TRIALS

CHAPTER VII.

BETTER THINGS

CHAPTER VIII.

GOOD FOR EVIL

CHAPTER IX.

FRED A PEACEMAKER

CHAPTER X.

EDITH'S VISIT TO JOE

CHAPTER XI.

JOE'S CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER XII.

THE CHRISTMAS TREE

CHAPTER XIII.

THE NEW HOME

CHAPTER XIV.

THE LAST

CHAPTER FIRST.

INTRODUCTION.

One bright afternoon, or rather evening, in May, two girls, with basket
in hand, were seen leaving the little seaport town in which they
resided, for the professed purpose of primrose gathering, but in reality
to enjoy the pure air of the first summer-like evening of a season,
which had been unusually cold and backward. Their way lay through bowery
lanes scented with sweet brier and hawthorn, and every now and then
glorious were the views of the beautiful ocean, which lay calmly
reposing and smiling beneath the setting sun. "How unlike that