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Title: An Orkney Maid

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Release Date: August 22, 2009 [EBook #29752]

Language: English

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AN ORKNEY MAID

By AMELIA E. BARR

An Orkney Maid
Christine
Joan
Profit and Loss
Three Score and Ten
The Measure of a Man
The Winning of Lucia
Playing with Fire
All the Days of My Life

D. APPLETON & COMPANY
Publishers
New York

[Illustration: "Ian was utterly charmed with the picture she made----"
[PAGE 60]]

AN ORKNEY MAID

BY
AMELIA E. BARR

AUTHOR OF "CHRISTINE," "JOAN," "PROFIT AND LOSS," ETC.

_"The pleasant habit of existence, the sweet fable of life."_

ILLUSTRATED

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
LONDON
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO
MY DEAR FRIEND
DR. MARTIN BARR
OF
ELWYNN, PENNSYLVANIA,
I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK.
AMELIA E. BARR.

"_Honor and truth formed your will,
Your heart, fidelity._"

_MOTTO_

_"You can glad your child, or grieve it,
You can help it, or deceive it,
When all is done,
Beneath God's sun,
You can only love, and leave it."_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Introduction 1
I. The House of Ragnor 7
II. Adam Vedder's Trouble 30
III. Aries the Ram 47
IV. Sunna and Her Grandfather 72
V. Sunna and Thora