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Title: Medoline Selwyn's Work

Author: Mrs. J. J. Colter

Release Date: March 26, 2006 [EBook #18052]

Language: English

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Medoline Selwyn's Work.

BY MRS. J. J. COLTER.

BOSTON:
IRA BRADLEY & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1889.

"The golden opportunity.
Is never offered twice: seize, then, the hour
When Fortune smiles and Duty points the way;
Nor shrink aside to 'scape the fear.--
Nor pause though Pleasure beckon from her bower,
But bravely bear thee onward to the goal"

CHAPTER.

I. Mrs. Blake
II. Oaklands
III. Esmerelda
IV. The Funeral
V. A New Accomplishment Learned
VI. Mr. Winthrop
VII. Examination
VIII. Mrs. Larkum
IX. An Evening Walk
X. A Helping Hand
XI. City Life
XII. New Acquaintances
XIII. Alone With His Dead
XIV. Humble Charities
XV. A Pleasant Surprise
XVI. Hope Realized
XVII. Christmas-tide
XVIII. The Christmas Tree
XIX. Three Important Letters
XX. Mrs. Le Grande
XXI. Mrs. Le Grande's Story
XXII. The Changed Heart
XXIII. The Encounter at St. Mark's
XXIV. Mrs. Le Grande's Stratagem
XXV. Beech Street Worshippers
XXVI. From The Depths
XXVII. Convalescence
XXVIII. The Sound of Marriage Bells
XXIX. The End

MEDOLINE SELWYN'S WORK.

CHAPTER I.

MRS. BLAKE.

The cars were not over-crowded, and were moving leisurely along in the
soft, midsummer twilight. At first, I had felt a trifle annoyed at my
carelessness in missing the Express by which I had been expected; but now
I quite enjoyed going in this mixe