Chapter XLI: Conclusion

You shall see, then, how it all ended—
What fortune, good, or bad, attended
The gentle lady your hopes befriended.—_Browning._

The day of the trial came.

The most eminent talent in the city was retained in the case, and about equally divided between the prosecution and the defence.

The counsel of the accused had flattered Mr. Deville and his family with the fairest prognostics of a triumphant acquittal. The alleged offence was at worst but the act of youthful passion and folly; could not be called a felony, since _intention_ constitutes the crime; and there had been no intention, or even consciousness, on the part of the accused, of committing the felony with which he was charged. Such was the “flattering unction” laid upon the aching hearts of the anxious family.

But the day of the trial came. The court-room, as might have been expected, was crowded.

Orville Deville was seated with his counsel.

Lionne, dressed in black, sat on the witness’ seat.

Lady Adelaide, fully believing in the triumphant vindication of her husband, and naturally shrinking from the investigation that would involve so many delicate details, readily complied with Mr. Deville’s request that she should absent herself from the trial.

I shall not trouble my reader with the full particulars of this trial. Suffice it to say, that when the accused was formally arraigned, with something of his natural arrogant disdain, he pleaded “not guilty” to the indictment.

The prosecution was carried on with great talent and rigor.

The defence was conducted with zeal and ability.

The judge, in finally charging the jury, was supposed to lean somewhat to the side of the prosecution.

The most intense anxiety was visible, not only upon the haggard face of the prisoner, but also upon the beautiful features of the principal witness against him, whenever a glimpse of those features could be caught.

Extreme interest was manifested by the audience during the interval in which the jury retired to deliberate, and yet few present looked for other than a full acquittal for the accused. The jury were absent about an hour; at the end of which they returned to the court-room.

Every person rose silently upon his feet, eagerly bending forward to catch the verdict.

Some who looked upon the accused saw that even he, though so confident, had, at this supreme moment, grown paler.

Lionne, quite throwing aside her vail and rising upon her feet, bent eagerly forward. Of all the faces present, hers expressed the most agonizing anxiety!

“Only behold that she-devil how impatiently she hungers for a fatal verdict,” said one of the bystanders, pointing to her wild, black eyes.

Meanwhile, the little, low-toned formula was going on between the clerk of the court and the foreman of the jury. The short colloquy was inaudible through the court room, until one tremendous word from the foreman of the jury fell like a thunderbolt upon the accused. That word of doom was—

“GUILTY.”

A panic of consternation fell upon the audience.

This was speedily broken by a wild shriek that rang through and through the court room, followed by the rushing of feet towards one point and the voices of many persons nearest the spot, crying:

“The prosecuting witness has fainted!”

Yes! it was true! Her revenge was consummated! She had hurled her destroyer down to destruction, and now, under the strong reaction of years of hatred, she herself had fallen!

It was some moments before the fainting woman could be conveyed from the room and order restored.

When all was still the judge arose and asked the convicted if he had any thing to say why the sentence of the court should not be pronounced against him.

“Yes! I have something to say! But first, I shall be obliged to one of the officers if he will procure me a glass of water.”

It was speedily procured and handed to the unhappy man. He took it in both hands, raised it slowly to his lips—paused—dropped the glass, which shivered at his feet—reeled for an instant—threw up his arms, and fell forward prone upon the floor, at the foot of the judge’s bench.

Several of the officers sprang to his assistance, raised him up, seated him in his chair; but—he was already dead!

When this was ascertained beyond a doubt, the court adjourned, the crowd hurried home to spread the news throughout the city, and the corpse was conveyed to an adjoining room to be examined before the coroner.

The verdict of the coroner’s jury was—“Suicide by taking prussic acid.”

The desired glass of water had merely been the cover to conceal the swallowing of the poison.

After the rising of the inquest the body was conveyed home to be prepared for burial. But who can justly describe the consternation, grief and despair that seized upon the heart of the young widow when the fatal intelligence was brought to her! The dreadful news was broken gently by the clergyman of the church to which she belonged. All that experience, discretion and kindness could do, was done to soften the severity of this terrible affliction; yet, for days after the funeral had taken place, the poor young widow lay in a darkened room, without sleep, without food, without companionship, unable to bear a ray of light, or the sound of a footfall.

She was affectionately attended by Kate Kyte, who confined herself to the parlor next that darkened chamber, to watch over her bereaved and afflicted friend.

Lady Adelaide was at length aroused from this torpor of despair by a note from Lionne. It was but a line, almost illegible from the trembling of the writer’s hand. It read:

“_I am dying: for the love of heaven, come to me, there is something I have to reveal which you should know._”

The gentle sufferer could not withstand this appeal. Giddy, faint, and trembling, she arose from her bed, was dressed, and lifted into a carriage, and conveyed to the house where, since the fatal issue of the trial, Lionne had withdrawn herself. Leaning on the arm of her footman, she entered the house, the door of which was opened by our old acquaintance, the dwarf Vulcan.

Following this strange guide, she went to the chamber of Lionne.

What a scene met her view! This chamber was not dark. The full beams of the afternoon sun streaming through crimson-draped windows, flooded the room with ruddy light. Upon a sumptuous bed, in the centre of the room, the beautiful and gifted Lionne lay in the agonies of death. On her right hand, clothed in deep mourning, and overwhelmed with grief, knelt Perdita, burying her face in the bedclothes. On the other side stood a boy, dressed as a page, but sobbing bitterly. He and Perdita at once quitted the room.

But upon Lionne alone was the regard of the visitor riveted. There lay the beautiful wreck! Her long, purplish black hair, unconfined, streamed down each side her pallid face, and lay in disordered splendor upon the counterpane. Her jet black eyebrows looked more than ever arched above the hollowness of her face. Her large, fierce eyes were closed until the long eyelashes lay like an inky fringe upon the dead white cheeks.

Seeing Lady Adelaide enter, she extended her hand, saying:

“This is very kind.”

Forgetting the fatal injuries this woman had done her, forgetting her own sufferings at the sight of sufferings so much greater, since they were augmented by remorse and tended towards death, Lady Adelaide bent over the dying woman, dropping tears upon her wasted hands and sobbing in a broken voice—

“Oh, my cousin, what can I do for your relief?”

“_Nothing—nothing_,” tolled the deep, death-bell tones of her voice, that seemed now to sound from the depths of a vault; “nothing, for you see the ruin that I have brought upon others has crushed me also! I lived for this end! it is attained and I die!”

Here her voice sank so low that Lady Adelaide looking around and seeing a cordial upon the stand, took and placed it to her lips.

She drank and was revived.

“I have a few words to say to you, and a very few minutes to say them in,” faltered the fast-failing woman.

“They concern your daughter.—Be easy on that subject. With your consent I shall take her again. Except for her orphan grief, it will be as though she had never left me. And more—her final destiny shall be as brilliant as though——”

Lady Adelaide paused, and her pale face flushed.

“I know what you would say.—As if her birth had been legitimate,” said Lionne.

“As if her mother’s marriage had been as legal as she supposed it to be,” said Adelaide, gently.

“You are kind.”

“I mean this: had Perdita been the child of an unquestionable marriage, she would inherit your title and estate, for I never forget that you are in your own right Countess of Glen Lennark—but as the case stands, Donald Lorne will be the next Earl of Glen Lennark. He will marry Perdita.”

“How do you know that?”

“I, their adopted mother, have watched the development of their mutual love. I shall foster that love. They are suited to each other. They will marry. Your daughter will receive back in a happy marriage all that she has lost in her hapless birth.”

“Dear saint, I thank you as well as a woman so wretched as myself can do,” said Lionne, stretching out her hand to Lady Adelaide; “but it was not alone of my child that I thought. Lady Adelaide, you, also, had a child——”

“Two; they are with God.”

“All innocents are with God, wherever they may be. But, fair saint, you did not see your younger child die—you did not bury her; what proof have you that she is not now living?”

“Oh, don’t! Oh, the thought, the thought is too torturing! Dead, she would be with God—living, where, oh! where would she be?”

“Still with God, though still on earth. Hear me, Lady Adelaide. Be calm. I am dying, you are living; you have more strength than I have. If I can bear to tell, you can bear to listen.”

“But, my child! oh, my child! where, then, is she?” cried the lady, trembling violently.

“Safe! safe, I tell you! and not far away. Do you think I warred with children?”

“Oh! but this is agony. Where, then, is she, where?”

“Prepare yourself! Touch that bell, if you please.”

Lady Adelaide complied, and the summons was answered by the entrance of the beautiful little blue-eyed page.

Lionne pointed significantly to the child.

“No! not he. My lost child was a girl! and yet—and yet——” cried Lady Adelaide, almost upon the verge of swooning while she gazed upon the child, “if I could trust the yearning of my heart——”

“Trust your heart. The child is yours! A page’s dress belies her sex; it was put on for concealment. Frank, come hither.”

The child timidly approached.

Lionne took the tiny hand, and, placing it in the cold, fainting fingers of Lady Adelaide, said:

“Child, this is the gentle lady whom I promised should be your mother when I am no more. Madam, you will explain all when I am gone.”

Adelaide closed her fingers upon the little hand of the page, whom she drew towards her. For an instant she gazed with indescribable emotion upon the sweet, infantile face, and was about to gather her child to her heart, when a wild cry from Perdita, who had just entered the room, caused her to turn. She saw Perdita dart to the bedside and raise the form of Lionne, and support her head upon her bosom. And in a few more seconds Lionne, Countess of Glen Lennark, was dead!

Wild wailing shook the house, for this strange, unhappy woman had been greatly loved.

Lady Adelaide conveyed the children from the house of mourning to her own apartments, and afterwards took charge of the funeral, which was solemnized on the third day thereafter.

And when this was over, her nature, roused to superhuman strength for a few days, gave way, and a low, nervous fever prostrated the gentle lady for many weeks, but brought to her side also many sympathizing friends and comforters.

With the spring came renewed health and peace; and Lady Adelaide, accompanied by her young family, and by Kate Kyte and her husband, set sail for Scotland. At Glen Lennark the young widow was received with acclamation by the tenantry, who, with all others, persisted in calling her the Countess Dowager Glen Lennark, a title she could not repudiate without exposing secret family history. But the beautiful young widow, scarcely thirty years of age, was not destined to wear her days out in mourning over the past. In due time her hand was sought by the Duke of Donaldben, a gentleman in every way worthy to make her forget the sorrows of her youth, and with whom she lived a long life of nearly perfect married love and happiness.

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in morocco cloth, 5 00

MRS. C. A. WARFIELD’S WORKS.

_Complete in nine large duodecimo volumes, bound in morocco cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $15.75 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

The Cardinal’s Daughter, $1 75 Ferne Fleming, 1 75 The Household of Bouverie, 1 75 A Double Wedding, 1 75 Miriam’s Memoirs, 1 75 Monfort Hall, 1 75 Sea and Shore, 1 75 Hester Howard’s Temptation, 1 75 Lady Ernestine; or, The Absent Lord of Rocheforte, 1 75

FREDRIKA BREMER’S DOMESTIC NOVELS.

_Complete in six large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $10.50 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

Father and Daughter, $1 75 The Four Sisters, 1 75 The Neighbors, 1 75 The Home, 1 75

Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.50 each.

Life in the Old World. In two volumes, cloth, price, 3 50

Q. K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS’ WORKS.

_Complete in four large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $7.00 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

Doesticks’ Letters, $1 75 Piu-Ri-Bus-Tab, 1 75 The Elephant Club, 1 75 Witches of New York, 1 75

Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.50 each.

JAMES A. MAITLAND’S WORKS.

_Complete in seven large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $12.25 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

The Watchman, $1 75 The Wanderer, 1 75 The Lawyer’s Story, 1 75 Diary of an Old Doctor, 1 75 Sartaroe, 1 75 The Three Cousins, 1 75 The Old Patroon; or the Great Van Broek Property, 1 75

Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.50 each.

T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE’S NOVELS.

_Complete in seven large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $12.25 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

The Sealed Packet, $1 75 Garstang Grange, 1 75 Dream Numbers, 1 75 Beppo, the Conscript, 1 75 Leonora Casaloni, 1 75 Gemma, 1 75 Marietta, 1 75

Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.50 each.

FRANK FORESTER’S SPORTING SCENES.

Frank Forester’s Sporting Scenes and Characters. By Henry William
Herbert. A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition, with a Life of the
Author, a New Introductory Chapter, Frank Forester’s Portrait and
Autograph, with a full length picture of him in his shooting
costume, and seventeen other illustrations, from original designs by
Darley and Frank Forester. Two vols., morocco cloth, bevelled
boards, $4.00.

WILKIE COLLINS’ BEST WORKS.

Basil; or, The Crossed Path $1 50 The Dead Secret. 12mo. 1 50 Above are each in one large duodecimo volume, bound in cloth. The Dead Secret, 8vo. 75 Basil; or, the Crossed Path, 75 Hide and Seek, 75 After Dark, 75 The Queen’s Revenge, 75 Miss or Mrs? 50 Mad Monkton, 50 Sights a-Foot, 50 The Stolen Mask, 25 The Yellow Mask, 25 Sister Rose, 25

The above books are each issued in paper cover, in octavo form.

EMERSON BENNETT’S INDIAN STORIES.

_Complete in seven large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $12.25 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

The Border Rover, $1 75 Clara Moreland, 1 75 The Orphan’s Trials, 1 75 Bride of the Wilderness, 1 75 Ellen Norbury, 1 75 Kate Clarendon, 1 75 Viola; or Adventures in the Far South-West, 1 75

Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.50 each.

The Heiress of Bellefonte, 75 The Pioneer’s Daughter, 75

GREEN’S WORKS ON GAMBLING.

_Complete in four large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.75 each; or $7.00 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

Gambling Exposed, $1 75 The Gambler’s Life, 1 75 The Reformed Gambler, 1 75 Secret Band of Brothers, 1 75

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DOW’S PATENT SERMONS.

_Complete in four large duodecimo volumes, bound in cloth, gilt back, price $1.50 each; or $6.00 a set, each set is put up in a neat box._

Dow’s Patent Sermons, 1st Series, cloth, $1 50 Dow’s Patent Sermons, 2d Series, cloth, 1 50 Dow’s Patent Sermons, 3d Series, cloth, 1 50 Dow’s Patent Sermons, 4th Series, cloth, 1 50

Above are each in cloth, or each one is in paper cover, at $1.00 each.

GEORGE SAND’S GREATEST WORKS.

Consuelo, 12mo., cloth, $1 50 Countess of Rudolstadt, 1 50 Jealousy, 12mo., cloth, 1 50 Indiana, 12mo., cloth, 1 50

Above are each published in 12mo., cloth, gilt side and back.

Fanchon, the Cricket, paper cover, 50 cents, or fine edition, in cloth, 1 50 First and True Love. With 11 Illustrations. Paper, 75 cents; cloth, 1 00 Consuelo. Paper cover, 75 Simon. A Love Story, 50 The Corsair, 50 The Last Aldini, 50 The Countess of Rudolstadt. The Sequel to Consuelo. Paper cover, 75

MISS BRADDON’S WORKS.

Aurora Floyd, 75 Aurora Floyd, cloth, 1 00 The Lawyer’s Secret, 25 For Better, For Worse, 75

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ANN S. STEPHENS’ COMPLETE WORKS.

=23= VOLUMES, AT =$1.75= EACH; OR =$40.25= A SET.

_T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, No. 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., have just published an entire new, complete, and uniform edition of all the works written by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, the popular American Authoress. This edition is in duodecimo form, is printed on the finest of white paper, and is complete in twenty-three volumes, and each volume is bound in the very best manner, in morocco cloth, with a full gilt back, and is sold at the low price of $1.75 each, or $40.25 for a full and complete set. Every family and every Library in this country, should have in it a complete set of this new and beautiful edition of the works of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. The following are the names of the volumes_:

NORSTON’S REST.
BERTHA’S ENGAGEMENT.
BELLEHOOD AND BONDAGE; or, Bought with a Price.
LORD HOPE’S CHOICE; or, More Secrets Than One.
THE OLD COUNTESS. Sequel to “Lord Hope’s Choice.”
THE REIGNING BELLE.
PALACES AND PRISONS; or, The Prisoner of the Bastille.
A NOBLE WOMAN; or, A Gulf Between Them.
THE CURSE OF GOLD; or, The Bound Girl and Wife’s Trials.
MABEL’S MISTAKE; or, The Lost Jewels.
WIVES AND WIDOWS; or, The Broken Life.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD; or, Pet From the Poor House.
THE REJECTED WIFE; or, The Ruling Passion.
THE WIFE’S SECRET; or, Gillian.
THE HEIRESS; or, The Gipsy’s Legacy.
THE SOLDIER’S ORPHANS.
SILENT STRUGGLES; or, Barbara Stafford.
RUBY GRAY’S STRATEGY; or, Married by Mistake.
FASHION AND FAMINE.
MARRIED IN HASTE.
DOUBLY FALSE; or, Alike and Not Alike.
THE GOLD BRICK.
MARY DERWENT.

☞︎ _Above books are for sale by all Booksellers at $1.75 each, or $40.25 for a complete set of the twenty-three volumes. Copies of either one or more of the above books, or a complete set of them, will be sent at once to any one, to any place, postage prepaid, or free of freight, on remitting their price in a letter to the Publishers_,

MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH’S WORKS

_T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia, have just published an entire new, complete and uniform edition of all of the celebrated works written by Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth. This edition is in duodecimo form, is printed on the finest white paper, is complete in forty-three volumes, and each volume is bound in morocco cloth, with a fall gilt back, and is sold at the low price of $1.75 a volume, or $75.25 for a full and complete set. Every Family, and every Library in this Country should have in it a complete set of this new edition of the works of Mrs. Southworth. The following are the names of the volumes_:

THE PHANTOM WEDDING; or, the Fall of the House of Flint.
SELF-RAISED; or, From the Depths. Sequel to “Ishmael.”
ISHMAEL; or, IN THE DEPTHS. (Being “Self-Made.”)
THE “MOTHER-IN-LAW;” or, MARRIED IN HASTE.
THE MISSING BRIDE; or, MIRIAM, THE AVENGER.
VICTOR’S TRIUMPH. Sequel to “A Beautiful Fiend.”
A BEAUTIFUL FIEND; or, THROUGH THE FIRE.
LADY OF THE ISLE; or, THE ISLAND PRINCESS.
FAIR PLAY; or, BRITOMARTE, THE MAN-HATER.
HOW HE WON HER. A Sequel to “Fair Play.”
THE CHANGED BRIDES; or, Winning Her Way.
THE BRIDE S FATE. Sequel to “The Changed Brides.”
CRUEL AS THE GRAVE; or, Hallow Eve Mystery.
TRIED FOR HER LIFE. A Sequel to “Cruel as the Grave.”
THE CHRISTMAS GUEST; or, The Crime and the Curse.
THE BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN.
THE LOST HEIR OF LINLITHGOW; or, The Brothers.
A NOBLE LORD. Sequel to “Lost Heir of Linlithgow.”
THE FAMILY DOOM; or, THE SIN OF A COUNTESS.
THE MAIDEN WIDOW. Sequel to “Family Doom.”
THE GIPSY’S PROPHECY; or, The Bride of an Evening.
THE FORTUNE SEEKER; or, Astrea. The Bridal Day.
THE THREE BEAUTIES; or, SHANNONDALE.
ALLWORTH ABBEY; or, EUDORA.
FALLEN PRIDE; or, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL’S LOVE.
INDIA; or, THE PEARL OF PEARL RIVER.
VIVIA; or, THE SECRET OF POWER.
THE BRIDAL EVE; or, ROSE ELMER.
THE DISCARDED DAUGHTER; or, The Children of the Isle.
THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS; or, HICKORY HALL.
THE TWO SISTERS; or, Virginia and Magdalene.
THE FATAL MARRIAGE; or, ORVILLE DEVILLE.
THE WIDOW’S SON; or, LEFT ALONE.
THE MYSTERY OF DARK HOLLOW.
THE DESERTED WIFE.
THE WIFE’S VICTORY.
THE LOST HEIRESS.
THE ARTIST’S LOVE.
THE HAUNTED HOMESTEAD.
LOVE’S LABOR WON.
THE SPECTRE LOVER.
CURSE OF CLIFTON.
THE FATAL SECRET.
RETRIBUTION.

☞︎ _Above books are for sale by all Booksellers, or copies will be sent to any one, at once, post-paid, on remitting price of ones wanted to_

_T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Publishers_,
306 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH’S WORKS.

Each Work is complete in one large Duodecimo Volume.

_ISHMAEL; or, IN THE DEPTHS. (Being Self-Made.)_
_SELF-RAISED; or, FROM THE DEPTHS. Sequel to Ishmael._
_THE MOTHER-IN-LAW; or, MARRIED IN HASTE._
_THE PHANTOM WEDDING; or, Fall of House of Flint._
_THE MISSING BRIDE; or, MIRIAM, THE AVENGER._
_A BEAUTIFUL FIEND; or, THROUGH THE FIRE._
_VICTOR’S TRIUMPH. A Sequel to “A Beautiful Fiend.”_
_THE FATAL MARRIAGE; or, Orville Deville._
_FAIR PLAY; or, BRITOMARTE, the MAN HATER._
_HOW HE WON HER. A Sequel to “Fair Play.”_
_THE CHANGED BRIDES; or, Winning Her Way._
_THE BRIDE’S FATE. Sequel to “The Changed Brides.”_
_CRUEL AS THE GRAVE; or, Hallow-Eve Mystery._
_TRIED FOR HER LIFE. A Sequel to “Cruel as the Grave.”_
_THE CHRISTMAS GUEST; or, The Crime and the Curse._
_THE LADY OF THE ISLE; or, The Island Princess._
_THE LOST HEIR OF LINLITHGOW; or, The Brothers._
_A NOBLE LORD. Sequel to “The Lost Heir of Linlithgow.”_
_THE FAMILY DOOM; or, the SIN OF A COUNTESS._
_THE MAIDEN WIDOW. Sequel to “The Family Doom.”_
_THE GIPSY’S PROPHECY; or, The Bride of an Evening._
_THE FORTUNE SEEKER; or, Astrea, the Bridal Day._
_THE THREE BEAUTIES; or, Shannondale._
_ALLWORTH ABBEY; or, Eudora._
_FALLEN PRIDE; or, THE MOUNTAIN GIRL’S LOVE._
_INDIA; or, THE PEARL OF PEARL RIVER._
_VIVIA; or, THE SECRET OF POWER._
_THE WIDOW’S SON; or, Left Alone._
_THE DISCARDED DAUGHTER; or, The Children of the Isle._
_THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS; or, Hickory Hall._
_THE BRIDAL EVE; or, Rose Elmer._
_THE DESERTED WIFE._
_THE LOST HEIRESS._
_THE WIFE’S VICTORY._
_THE CURSE OF CLIFTON._
_THE ARTIST’S LOVE._
_THE FATAL SECRET._
_BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN._
_HAUNTED HOMESTEAD._
_THE SPECTRE LOVER._
_RETRIBUTION._
_LOVE’S LABOR WON._
_THE TWO SISTERS._

Above Books are Bound in Morocco Cloth. Price $1.75 Each.

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☞︎ _Mrs. Southworth’s works are for sale by all Booksellers, or copies of any one, or more of them, will be sent to any one, postage prepaid, or free of freight, on remitting the price of the ones wanted, to the publishers_,

_T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia, Pa._

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

● Fixed typos; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Moved MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH’S WORKS from after the title verso to the end of the book. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.