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Title: Aunt Mary

Author: Mrs. Perring

Release Date: June 2, 2007 [eBook #21663]

Language: English

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AUNT MARY

by

MRS. PERRING

Author of
'The Story of a Mouse,' 'The Story of a Cat,' 'The Castle
and the Cottage,' Etc.

London
George Routledge and Sons
Broadway, Ludgate Hill
New York: 416 Broome Street
1881.

[Illustration: AUNT MARY.]

AUNT MARY.

CHAPTER I.

AUNT MARY.

In one of those very pretty suburban villas which are to be seen in the
neighbourhood of all our large towns, Aunt Mary lived, at the time when
my tale commences.

Indeed she had lived there the greater part of her life, for her father,
Mr. Livesay, who had been a highly respected merchant in London for a
great many years, had, unlike the generality of this prosperous class,
retired from business as soon as he had secured a moderate competency
for himself, his wife, and their four daughters, of whom our Aunt Mary
was the eldest.

Mr. Livesay had purchased the pretty house, to which he had retreated
from the hurry and bustle of the great city, but before doing so, he had
taken care to ascertain that the inhabitants of the adjoin