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Title: Jan Vedder's Wife

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Release Date: April 26, 2010 [eBook #32144]

Language: English

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JAN VEDDER'S WIFE

by

AMELIA E. BARR

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Publishers.

Copyright, 1885 by Dodd, Mead & Company

CONTENTS.

Chapter I.--Jan's Wedding. 1
Chapter II.--A Little Cloud in the Sky. 17
Chapter III.--Jan's Opportunity. 36
Chapter IV.--The Desolated Home. 54
Chapter V.--Shipwreck. 74
Chapter VI.--Margaret's Heart. 94
Chapter VII.--The Man at Death's Door. 116
Chapter VIII.--Death and Change. 140
Chapter IX.--Jan at His Post. 167
Chapter X.--Sweet Home. 193
Chapter XI.--Snorro Is Wanted. 228
Chapter XII.--Snorro and Jan. 252
Chapter XIII.--Little Jan's Triumph. 275
Chapter XIV.--Jan's Return. 297
Chapter XV.--Labor and Rest. 317

CHAPTER I.

JAN'S WEDDING.

"Eastward, afar, the coasts of men were seen
Dim, shadowy, and spectral; like a still
Broad land of spirits lay the vacant sea
Beneath the silent heavens--here