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Title: Hubert's Wife
A Story for You

Author: Minnie Mary Lee

Release Date: June 27, 2007 [eBook #21949]

Language: English

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HUBERT'S WIFE:

A Story for You.

by

MINNIE MARY LEE.

"There is a way which seemeth just to a man, but the end thereof leadeth
unto death."--Prov. xlv, 12.

Baltimore:
Published by John B. Piet
Late Kelly, Piet & Co.
Entered, according to an act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
Kelly, Piet & Company,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS.

I. A Black Conference 1
II. The Master of Kennons 7
III. An Interruption to Duncan's Reverie 14
IV. Philip St. Leger 19
V. The Missionary's Retrospect 30
VI. Missionary Life 37
VII. The Distinguished Traveler's Views 45
VIII. The Visitation by Spirit and by Death 52
IX. The New Choice 60
X. "A Dream which was not all a Dream" 71
XI. Althea's Guardians 77
XII. The Christening 88
XIII. New Mistress at Kennons 97
XIV. China--Uncle Mat's Prayer Meeting 109
XV. Kizzie 118
XVI. Time and Change 126
XVII. The St. Legers 135
XVIII. St. Mark's or St. Patrick's? 145
XIX. "In such an hour as ye think not" 154
XX. Juliet 164
XXI. "The Spider and the Fly" 172
XXII. Althea--Death of Little Johnny 181
XXIII. Hubert Lisle at Vine Cottage 193
XXIV.