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Title: Left at Home
or, The Heart's Resting Place

Author: Mary L. Code

Release Date: October 8, 2007 [eBook #22916]

Language: English

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LEFT AT HOME;

Or, The Heart's Resting-place.

by

MARY L. CODE,

Author of
"Wandering May;" "Clarie's Little Charge;"
"Lonely Lily;" Etc.

[Illustration: "They walked on for some distance without saying
much."--_Page 92._]

Kilmarnock:
John Ritchie,
Publisher of Christian Literature.

And Through All Booksellers.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Page
LITTLE MILDRED 7

CHAPTER II.
GOING TO INDIA 16

CHAPTER III.
ARTHUR'S MOTHER 26

CHAPTER IV.
LAST DAYS AT ASHTON GRANGE 30

CHAPTER V.
THE PARTING 44

CHAPTER VI.
MYRTLE HILL 47

CHAPTER VII.
LEFT ALONE 60

CHAPTER VIII.
EDGAR NORTH 79

CHAPTER IX.
MIDSUMMER HOLIDAYS AMONG THE MOUNTAINS 108

CHAPTER X.
AT REST NOW 114

CHAPTER XI.
CONCLUSION 140

[Illustration: ASHTON GRANGE.]

LEFT AT HOME.

CHAPTER I.

LITTLE MIL