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Title: A Rose of a Hundred Leaves
A Love Story

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Release Date: September 1, 2010 [EBook #33599]

Language: English

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A ROSE OF A HUNDRED LEAVES

A Love Story

BY AMELIA E. BARR

AUTHOR OF "FRIEND OLIVIA," "THE BOW OF ORANGE RIBBON,"
"JAN VEDDER'S WIFE," ETC.

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1891

Copyright, 1891, By J. B. Lippincott Company.

Copyright, 1891, By Dodd, Mead and Company.

All rights reserved.

University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Wild Rose is the Sweetest 9
II. Forgive me, Christ! 35
III. Only Brother Will 77
IV. For Mother's Sake 113
V. But they were Young 151
VI. "Love shall be Lord of Sandy-Side" 180
VII. "A Rose of a Hundred Leaves" 208

CHAPTER I.

THE WILD ROSE IS THE SWEETEST.

I tell again the oldest and the newest story of all the world,--the
story of Invincible Love!

This tale divine--ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young
as the passing hour--has forms and names various as humanity. The
story of Aspatria Anneys is but one of these,--one leaf from all the
roses in the world, one note of all its myriad of songs.

Aspatria was born at Seat-Ambar, an old house in Allerdale. It had
Skiddaw to shelter it on the northwest; and it looked boldly out
across the Solway, and into that sequestered valley in Furness known
as "the Vale of the Deadly Nightshade." The pl