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Title: Sowing and Sewing
A Sexagesima Story
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Release Date: May 2, 2010 [eBook #32200]
Language: English
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SOWING AND SEWING.
A Sexagesima Story.
by
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.
New York:
E. P. Dutton and Co.,
39, West Twenty-Third Street.
PREFACE.
PERHAPS some may read allusions to a sacred Parable underlying this
little story. If so, I hope they will not think it an irreverent mode of
applying the lesson.
C. M. YONGE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. PAGE
THE SERMON 1
CHAPTER II.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 13
CHAPTER III.
THE WORKING PARTY 28
CHAPTER IV.
TEACHER AMY 49
CHAPTER V.
THE TROUSSEAU 64
CHAPTER VI.
STITCH, STITCH, STITCH 79
CHAPTER VII.
WANDERING EYES 101
CHAPTER VIII.
AMY'S VISITS 115
CHAPTER IX.
AWKWARD MEETINGS 127
CHAPTER X.
THE RECKONING 150
CHAPTER XI.
WHICH SHALL PROSPER? 159
SOWING AND SEWING.
CHAPTER I.
THE SERMON.
FOUR girls were together in a pleasant cottage room with a large window,
over which fluttered some dry sticks, which would in due time bear
clematis and Virginia creeper leaves.
Three of them were Miss Lee's apprentices, and this room had been built
out at the back of the baker's shop for them. The place was the property
of the Lee family themselves, and nobody in Langley was more respected
than they were. Ambrose Lee, whose name was over the baker's shop,
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