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Title: Ernest Linwood
or, The Inner Life of the Author

Author: Caroline Lee Hentz

Release Date: January 27, 2007 [EBook #20462]

Language: English

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ERNEST LINWOOD;

OR,

THE INNER LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

BY MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ.

AUTHOR OF "LINDA; OR, THE YOUNG PILOT OF THE BELLE CREOLE," "THE
BANISHED SON," "COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE; OR, THE JOYS AND SORROWS OF
AMERICAN LIFE," "THE PLANTER'S NORTHERN BRIDE; OR, SCENES IN MRS. HENTZ
CHILDHOOD," "LOVE AFTER MARRIAGE," "MARCUS WARLAND; OR, THE LONG MOSS
SPRING," "EOLINE; OR, MAGNOLIA VALE; OR, THE HEIRESS OF GLENMORE,"
"HELEN AND ARTHUR; OR, MISS THUSA'S SPINNING-WHEEL," "RENA; OR, THE SNOW
BIRD," "THE LOST DAUGHTER," "ROBERT GRAHAM;" A SEQUEL TO "LINDA," ETC.

PHILADELPHIA:
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS;
306 CHESTNUT STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by T. B.
PETERSON & BROTHERS

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

* * * * *

"Thou hast called me thine angel in moments of bliss,
Still thine angel I'll prove mid the horrors of this.
Through the furnace unshrinking thy steps I'll pursue,
And shield thee, and save thee, and perish there too."

* * * * *

ERNEST LINWOOD.

CHAPTER I.

With an incident of my childhood I will commence the record of my life.
It stands out in bold prominence, rugged and bleak, through the haze of
memory.

I was only twelve years old. He might have spoken less harshly. He might
have remembered and pitied my youth and sensitiveness, that tall,
powerful, hitherto kind man,--my