econciled 140
CHAPTER XXII.
Clara's Marriage 145
CHAPTER XXIII.
A Pleasing Incident 148

TERRY DOLAN 151

THE FAITHFUL WIFE 163

EMMA ASHTON 175

THOUGHTS ON AUTUMN 199

WANDERING DAVY 205

LOOKING ON THE DARK SIDE 215

EDWARD BARTON 223

THE WEARY AT REST 233

THE RAINY AFTERNOON 239

THE STUDENT'S DREAM 251

UNCLE EPHRAIM 257

STORY OF A LOG CABIN 265

HAZEL-BROOK FARM 281

OLD RUFUS 301

THE DIAMOND RING 311

THE UNFORTUNATE MAN 323

THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE 329

ARTHUR SINCLAIR 335

THE SNOW STORM 355

THE NEW YEAR 361

EARNEST HARWOOD; OR, THE ADOPTED SON 367

CHAPTER I.

A SUDDEN BEREAVEMENT.

"Awake, my dear child, awake!" These were the words I heard: I started
up, gazing in a bewildered manner into the face of my mother, who had,
with some difficulty, succeeded in arousing me from the sweet, healthful
sleep of childhood. My mother drew nigh to me and whispered, "My dear
Clara, your papa is dying." With a frightened cry, I threw my arms
around her neck, and begged her to tell me what had happened. I was
unable to comprehend the meaning of her words. Since my earliest
recollection, my father had never experienced a day's illness, and so
the reader may be able to form some idea of the shock occasioned by her
words--uttered, as they were, at the hour of midnight. When my mother
had succeeded in soothing me, in some degree, to calmness, she informed
me, in a voice choked with sobs, which, for my sake, she tried to
suppress, that my father had, two hours since, been stricken with
apoplexy, in so severe a form that his life was despaired of. She
further informed me that his attending physician thought he would not
live