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Title: The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I

Author: Susanna Moodie

Release Date: March 16, 2007 [EBook #20835]

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THE MONCTONS:

A NOVEL.

BY

SUSANNA MOODIE,

AUTHOR OF

"ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH," "FLORA LINDSAY,"
"MATRIMONIAL SPECULATIONS," &c.

What--dost thou think I'll bend to thee?
The free in soul are ever free:
Nor force, nor poverty can bind
The subtle will--the thinking mind.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1856.

LONDON:
Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

TO JOHN LOVELL, ESQ., OF MONTREAL, WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST AND MOST
SUCCESSFUL PIONEERS IN ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL LITERATURE IN THE
CANADIAN COLONIES, THIS WORK, WHICH OWES ITS EXISTENCE TO HIS GENEROUS
CARE, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS GRATEFUL AND OBLIGED FRIEND,
SUSANNA MOODIE.

DECEMBER, 1855.

Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents is not contained in the book
but has been created for the convenience of the reader of this etext.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. MY GRANDFATHER AND HIS SONS.
II. MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL.
III. MY AUNT REBECCA.
IV. THE TUTOR.
V. A CHANGE IN MY PROSPECTS.
VI. THE SORROWS OF DEPENDENCE.
VII. GEORGE HARRISON.
VIII. UNGRATIFIED CURIOSITY.
IX. A PORTRAIT.
X. DREAMS.
XI. MY FIRST LOVE.
XII. I FORFEIT MY INDEPENDENCE.
XIII. A VISIT FROM THE GREAT MAN OF THE FAMILY.
XIV. LOVE AND HATRED.
XV. GEORGE HARRISON AND HIS HISTORY.
XVI. GEORGE HARRISON CONTINUES HIS HISTORY.
XVII. HARRISON FINDS A FRIEND IN NEED.
XVIII. THE MEETING.

THE MONCTONS.

CHAPTER I.

MY GRANDFATHER AND HIS SONS.

There was a time--a good old time--when men of rank and fortune were
not ashamed of their poor relations; affording the protection of their
name and influence to the lower shoots of the gr