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Project Gutenberg's Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures, by T. S. Arthur This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures Author: T. S. Arthur Posting Date: August 14, 2009 [EBook #4595] Release Date: October, 2003 First Posted: February 12, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEART-HISTORIES AND LIFE-PICTURES *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo. HTML version by Al Haines. HEART-HISTORIES AND LIFE-PICTURES. BY T. S. ARTHUR. NEW YORK: 1853. INTRODUCTION. So interested are we all in our every-day pursuits; so given up, body and mind, to the attainment of our own ends; so absorbed by our own hopes, joys, fears and disappointments, that we think rarely, if at all, of the heart-histories of others--of the bright and sombre life-pictures their eyes may look upon. And yet, every heart has its history: how sad and painful many of these histories are, let the dreamy eyes, the sober faces, the subdued, often mournful tones, of many that daily cross our paths, testify. An occasional remembrance of these things will cause a more kindly feeling towards others; and this will do us good, in withdrawing our minds from too exclusive thoughts of self. Whatever tends to awaken our sympathies towards others, to interest us in humanity, is, therefore, an individual benefit as well as a common good. In all that we have written, we have endeavored to create this sympathy and awaken this interest; and so direct has ever been our purpose, that we have given less thought to those elegancies of style on which a literary reputation is often founded, than to the truthfulness of our many life-pictures. In the preparation of this volume, the same end has been kept in view, and its chief merit will be found, we trust, in its power to do good. T. S. A. PHILADELPHIA, December, 1852. CONTENTS. THE BOOK OF MEMORY, THE BRILLIANT AND THE COMMON-PLACE, JENNY LAWSON, SHADOWS, THE THANKLESS OFFICE, GOING TO THE SPRINGS, THE WIFE, NOT GREAT BUT HAPPY, THE MARRIED SISTERS, GOOD-HEARTED PEOPLE, SLOW AND SURE, THE SCHOOL GIRL, UNREDEEMED PLEDG
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