Chapter XLIV: The Reunion

Once more that double log-cabin gave signs of active life. Dinah and Liz—now a pretty colored girl—had left The Bend, where they had followed those two seemingly orphaned girls, and in a marvellously short time placed the old home in a comfortable state of preparation.

John Downs had been miserable during the trial, but now he came out in great spirits, and the wild turkies, prairie chickens, quails, and delicate little birds that he brought into Dinah’s kitchen were enough to feast a whole township. The happiness of that young man was something beautiful to behold, when he lifted Mr. Bentley out of the wagon which had brought him from The Bend, and half carried him into the best sleeping-room, which the girls had arranged for his reception.

John knew that his wedding-day was near at hand. No horrible murder or heart-rending trial could come again between him and his happiness, for the cruel power which had worked so much evil in that family was swept away as it were by a whirlwind.

With deep and solemn thanksgiving the family once more returned to the shelter of that humble roof, scarcely thinking as yet that the wild impulse of a mob had restored them to wealth and position again. The good God had been directly merciful in saving Daniel Hart’s life. By his own crime young Hurst had fallen. The shock of his horrible death was still too great for actual rejoicing among the persons he had so deeply wronged. So with quiet thoughtfulness they settled down into their humble life again.

Daniel Hart seemed to have grown stronger and more genial from his trial. He went back on the very first day to the clearing, and after grinding his axe, levelled the dying chestnut to the earth, with blows that made the forest reverberate once more.

Gillian, too, restored to her father, and saved from the terrible anguish that had almost killed her, became hopeful again, as youth will, and began to wonder in her heart why Woodworth had kept so long silent. It was now time that he should come West and claim her for his wife—full time. In her trouble she had scarcely thought of this, but now that the great sorrow was lifted from her life she grew anxious. As for Martha, what with visits from her lover in the morning, excuses for coming with game at night, and chance interviews every hour or two, she managed to take life with considerable cheerfulness.

But Dinah! her works in the kitchen were something wonderful. She wasn’t going to have a dispensation of providence, that seemed more than a miracle, passed over without becoming festivities. The day that Mr. Bentley returned home—a little weak, but looking well and happier than he had been for years—Dinah burst forth into a storm of preparation. Pine knots and kindling wood were collected in armsful. From morning till night great sheets of flame roared up the chimney and flashed into the cool October air, melting away in clouds of curling smoke. Kettles of scalding water covered the windows with drops of steam; a basket of moist feathers stood by the door; and in front of the huge fire two fine turkeys and a regiment of smaller birds whirled and browned on the twine strings which suspended them from a beam in the ceiling, dropping streams of luscious gravy into an encampment of dripping pans and tin basins that formed a half moon on the hearth.

“Now mind you tend ’em faithful,” said Dinah to Liz; “keep the big spoon a-goin’ on them turkeys; dip up the gravy and give ’em back as good as dey send—’tend to yer duty, and they’ll be scrumptuous eatin’, now I tells yer; and mind keep der door shut close. I don’t want de folks ter know what’s goin on till de ’past am spread, and thanksgivin’ on de table.”

Liz promised, and went down on her knees behind the largest turkey, bathing him with his own gravy till the scent was carried off in luscious gushes up the chimney.

“Them ’um!” cried Dinah, in great glee, “nebber mind de fire, Lib; here am a turkey’s wing to hold ’tween yer and it—’sides, heat don’t tan a nigger, nohow. Jes keep it a gwoin while I run in and set de table. Bless de Lord, what am dat?”

Liz sprang from her hot place by the fire and ran to the door, fanning herself with the turkey’s wing.

“Oh, ki! ki! if it isn’t a city gemman in a buggy, and Squire Church’s hoss with a lady, and—golly, but I’ll run tell Miss Gillian!”

“No, yer wont!” cried Dinah, seizing the girl in her first leap. “Dem am sacrum t’ings, Liz, sich as young niggers mustn’t hab nothin’ to do wid. It’s her beau. I’ll compare Miss Gillian for de ferlicitation as am before her; ’tend ter yer turkeys, chile—’tend ter yer turkeys!”

Dinah was too late. Gillian and Martha were just coming in from the clearing with a quantity of golden rod and wild asters, which they had been gathering for Mr. Bentley’s room. The woods were now all a-blaze with gorgeous October foliage: so they had added some of the most richly-tinted leaves to the late blossoms, and Martha held a quantity of wild grapes gathered up in her apron.

Gillian dropped the flowers and uttered a cry of delight as she saw Woodworth spring from the buggy, lift the lady out and resign her to the care of Daniel Hart—all as it seemed in an instant. The next, he was coming toward her, so bright, so joyous in his eager haste, that she almost ran to meet him. As their hands clasped and their happy smiles mingled, Martha stole away and entered the cabin. There she found Daniel Hart on his knees, trembling from head to foot with a great burst of emotion. His face was buried in his broad hands, and a prayer which was almost a shout of joy broke from him—

“Oh, my God, how can I be thankful enough? It is her, it is her!”

“Father, father, what is the matter? What has happened?” said Martha, bending over the old man.

Daniel Hart lifted his head. His face quivered under a rain of tears. The voice burst almost in a shout from his lips.

“Oh, girl, it is my sister Sarah! it is my sister Sarah! She was lost and is found; she was dead and is alive again.”

It was true. Julia Ransom—never to be called by that name again—had entered the room where her husband was sitting alone. His journey from The Bend had wearied him a little, and he lay back in his chair with closed eyes. She stole toward him with the breath checked on her lips—her face bright and glorified with joy, her step noiseless. He heard the flutter of her garments, but the window was open, and he thought, in his half-sleep, that it was a gush of air stirring the ripe autumnal foliage of a tree that sheltered the house. She was close by him; her head drooped like a flower weighed down by its own perfume. Her lips fell to his, mingling sighs with his breath. The touch was light as the flutter of a rose-leaf; but it sent a thrill through his dreams, and he started up, looking eagerly around.

She was before him, her eyes full of tears, looking into his—her hands clasped as if to beg pardon for the breath she had left on his lips. The light was dim, thus mellowing the traces of age. It was the Sarah Hart he had loved—the wife he had abandoned—the mother of Gillian.

He opened his arms, and held them forth.

“Sarah! my wife!”

His voice thrilled the very air of the room; it brought her within the clasp of his arms, close, close to his heart. Twenty years of sorrow—what was it, balanced by a moment like that?

They sat together in the little room, almost silent; but now and then a broken word explained a little of the past.

“And you can forgive my suspicion—my stubborn cruelty?” he said.

“No, no. The evidence was so strong—my pride so uncontrollable: the fault rested there, my husband. But I had taken an oath, before my God, never to betray Hetty’s secret—to guard the good name of our family with my life. But for this compact I should have told you all.”

“Oh, Sarah, the truth was late in coming!”

She took his hand between both hers, and kissed it, half timidly; for a touch of her old pride made her expect, rather than offer demonstrations of the deep, deep love that rose in her heart.

That moment the door opened, and Gillian appeared, searching for her father. She saw the lady by his side, and came eagerly forward. Woodworth had told her nothing—deeming the secret too sacred for any but a parent’s lips.

“Oh, Mrs. Ransom!”

“Gillian, it is your mother.”

The young girl stood for a moment, mute as stone; then her color came, her heart heaved, and the joyful weeping of those noble women filled the room.

“My mother—how sweetly the word sounds!” said Gillian. “Oh, how long we have thought you dead, my mother!”

“It was another’s death of which I took advantage. An American woman died at Naples just before I left that city. She was an unfortunate creature who had strayed away from her position in life and died of a broken heart. By design my name got mingled with hers. They laid her in the _Campo Sante_, and there my old life closed. I made for myself a new destiny and a new name.”

“An honored name,” said Bentley, smiling; “it is almost a sacrifice to give it up. I never dreamed that you possessed such talent, Sarah.”

“Oh, I began to write when the trouble came on my sister. It was by that means I supported her unhappy child; but it was in a small way, through papers and magazines. It was not till I was left alone that the blessing of hard work came upon me; but for that I must have died. In becoming an author I grew strong to suffer, and patient to wait.”

“But your sister, poor thing! her’s is a hard destiny; how will she hear of her son’s death?” said Bentley.

A shade of sadness came over them all. Sarah Bentley’s eyes filled with tears.

“It will not wound her,” she said, in a voice low with gentle sadness; “my sister Hetty is dead.”

* * * * *

Before the October foliage lost any of its gorgeous richness, two weddings were celebrated in that double log cabin, and a right pleasant time the neighbors had on the occasion. Those who had seen Gillian doing the honors of her father’s house in New York might have been a little surprised at the fashion of her marriage, and the guests that honored it. There was Judge Church, from The Bend, the blacksmith and his wife, Johnson, the constable, and many another great-hearted western man and woman, who had stood by Daniel Hart in his trouble, and believed in him thoroughly, spite of the falsehood that surrounded him. No man, woman, or child, who had given the good man a kind word in that time of trial was forgotten. For many a year after, those people told with pride of the splendid wedding they had attended in that double cabin, where the brides were dressed in white muslin like any of their daughters, though Mr. Bentley was worth his millions on millions, and might have paved the cabin floor with gold, if he had cared to do it.

This double marriage took place in the morning, and before noon all the inmates of the cabin were on their route to New York and Rockland county. Just as the party were about to leave the house, Mr. Bentley and Daniel Hart took the blacksmith on one side, and when they came among the guests again the good man held a broad sheet of paper, with several seals attached, against the signatures of Daniel Hart and Mr. Bentley. It was a deed of the log cabin, and all the land that surrounded it.

* * * * *

Again the fashionable world was in commotion. Such windfalls of gossip seldom are provided by one family in so short a time. Young Hurst, the claimant of Mr. Bentley’s property, had died suddenly, and Mr. Bentley had come into possession again. His daughter Gillian was married to Mr. Woodworth, and cards of invitation were out for a grand wedding reception. More than all this, Mr. Bentley had been for some time privately married to his daughter’s friend, Mrs. Ransom, the great authoress, who was now the acknowledged wife and mistress of his home. Then it was rumored that Martha Hart, the pretty cousin who had waltzed with such spirit on the night of the ball, was married to a young farmer in Rockland county, and had settled down on her father’s old homestead.

All these rumors must be true; for, the world said, they came from a good source—an old colored woman who had been in the family for years—the woman with that gorgeous turban, who had insisted upon regulating the whole household on the night of the ball. Surely no one could forget her, or doubt that she knew all about it.

THE END.

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=Marrying for Money.= One vol., octavo, paper cover Price fifty cents; or one vol., cloth, 75 cents. =The Poor Cousin.= Price 50 cents. =Kate Walsingham.= Price 50 cents.

ALEXANDER DUMAS’ WORKS.

=Count of Monte-Cristo.= By Alexander Dumas. Beautifully illustrated. One volume, cloth, $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, for $1.00. =The Conscript.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =Camille; or the Fate of a Coquette.= Only correct Translation from the Original French. Two volumes, paper, price $1.00; cloth, $1.50. =The Three Guardsmen.= Price 75 cents, in paper cover, or a finer edition in cloth, for $1.50. =Twenty Years After.= A Sequel to the “Three Guardsmen.” Price 75 cents, in paper cover, or a finer edition, in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =Bragelonne; the Son of Athos=: being the continuation of “Twenty Years After.” Price 75 cents, in paper, or a finer edition, in cloth, for $1.50. =The Iron Mask.= Being the continuation of the “Three Guardsmen.” Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth, $1.50. =Louise La Valliere=; or, The Second Series and end of the “Iron Mask.” Two volumes, paper cover. Price $1.00, or in one vol., cloth, $1.50. =The Memoirs of a Physician.= Beautifully Illustrated. Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or bound in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =The Queen’s Necklace.= A sequel to the “Memoirs of a Physician.” Two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =Six Years Later=; or, Taking of the Bastile. A Continuation of “The Queen’s Necklace.” Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =Countess of Charny=; or, The Fall of the French Monarchy. Sequel to Six Years Later. Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =Andree de Taverney.= A sequel to and continuation of the Countess of Charny. Two volumes, paper. Price $1.00; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =The Chevalier.= A Sequel to, and final end of “Andree De Taverney.” One vol. Price 75 cents. =The Adventures of a Marquis.= Two vols., paper cover. Price 1.00; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =The Forty-Five Guardsmen.= Price 75 cents, or a finer edition in one volume, cloth. Price $1.50. =The Iron Hand.= Price 75 cents, in paper cover, or a finer edition in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =Diana of Meridor.= Two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =Edmond Dantes.= Being a Sequel to Dumas’ celebrated novel of the “Count of Monte-Cristo.” Price 50 cts. =Annette; or, The Lady of the Pearls.= A Companion to “Camille.” Price 50 cents. =The Fallen Angel.= A Story of Love and Life in Paris. One volume. Price 50 cents. =The Man with Five Wives.= Complete in one volume. Price 50 cts. =George; or, the Planter of the Isle of France.= One volume. Price Fifty cents. =Genevieve=; or, The Chevalier of Maison Rouge. One volume. Illustrated. Price 50 cents. =The Mohicans of Paris.= 50 cts. =Sketches in France.= 50 cents. =Isabel of Bavaria.= Price 50 cts. =Felina de Chambure=; or, The Female Fiend. Price 50 cents. =The Horrors of Paris.= 50 cents. =The Twin Lieutenants.= One vol. Price 50 cts. =The Corsican Brothers.= 25 cts.

FRANK E. SMEDLEY’S WORKS.

=Harry Coverdale’s Courtship and Marriage.= Two vols., paper. Price $1.00; or cloth, $1.50. =Lorrimer Littlegood.= By author of “Frank Fairleigh.” Two vols., paper. Price $1.00; or cloth, $1.50. =Frank Fairleigh.= One volume, cloth. $1.50; or cheap edition in paper cover, for 75 cents. =Lewis Arundel.= One vol., cloth. Price $1.50; or cheap edition in paper cover, for 75 cents. =Fortunes and Misfortunes of Harry Racket Scapegrace.= Cloth. Price $1.50; or cheap edition in paper cover, for 50 cents. =Tom Racquet=; and His Three Maiden Aunts. Illustrated. 50 cents.

MISS BREMER’S NEW WORKS.

=The Father and Daughter.= By Fredrika Bremer. Two vols., paper. Price
$1.00; or cloth, $1.50.
=The Four Sisters.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one
volume, cloth, for $1.50.
=The Neighbors.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one
volume, cloth, for $1.50.
=The Home.= Two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one
volume, cloth, for $1.50.
=Life in the Old World=; or, Two Years in Switzerland and Italy.
Complete in two large duodecimo volumes, of near 1000 pages. Price
$3.00.

GREEN’S WORKS ON GAMBLING.

=Gambling Exposed.= By J. H. Green, the Reformed Gambler. Two vols.,
paper cover. Price $1.00; or in one volume, cloth, gilt, for $1.50.
=The Gambler’s Life.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in
one vol., cloth, gilt, for $1.50.
=The Secret Band of Brothers.= Two volumes, paper cover. Price One
Dollar; or bound in one volume, cloth, for $1.50.
=The Reformed Gambler.= Two vols., paper. Price One Dollar; or in one
vol., cloth, for $1.50.

MRS. GREY’S NEW BOOKS.

=Little Beauty.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one
volume; cloth, for $1.50.
=Cousin Harry.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one
volume, cloth, for $1.50.
=The Flirt.= One vol. octavo, paper cover, 50 cents; or in cloth, for
75 cents.

MRS. GREY’S POPULAR NOVELS.

_Price Twenty-Five Cents each._

=Gipsy’s Daughter.= =Lena Cameron.= =Belle of the Family.= =Sybil Lennard.= =Duke and Cousin.= =The Little Wife.= =The Manœuvring Mother.= =The Young Prima Donna.= =Alice Seymour.= =Baronet’s Daughters.= =Old Dower House.= =Hyacinthe.= =Passion & Principle.= 50 cents. =Mary Seaham.= Price 50 cents.

G. P. R. JAMES’S NEW BOOKS.

=The Cavalier.= An Historical Romance. With a steel portrait of the author. Two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =The Man in Black.= Price 50 cts. =Arrah Neil.= Price 50 cents. =Lord Montagu’s Page.= Two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth, $1.50. =Mary of Burgundy.= Price 50 cts. =Eva St. Clair=; and other Tales. Price 25 cents.

MISS ELLEN PICKERING’S WORKS.

_Price Thirty-Eight Cents each._

=Who Shall be Heir?= =Merchant’s Daughter.= =The Secret Foe.= =The Expectant.= =The Fright.= =Quiet Husband.= =Ellen Wareham.= =Nan Darrel.= =Prince and Pedlar.= =The Squire.= =The Grumbler.= 50 cents. =Orphan Niece.= 50 cents.

COINS OF THE WORLD.

=Petersons’ Complete Coin Book=, containing Perfect Fac-Similes of all
the various Gold, Silver, and other Metallic Coins, throughout the
World, near Two Thousand in all, being the most complete Coin Book in
the World, with the United States Mint Value of each Coin under it.
Price $1.00.

MISS PARDOE’S WORKS.

=The Jealous Wife.= By Miss Pardoe. Complete in one large octavo
volume. Price Fifty cents.
=The Wife’s Trials.= By Miss Pardoe Complete in one large octavo
volume. Price Fifty cents.
=The Rival Beauties.= By Miss Pardoe. Complete in one large octavo
volume. Price Fifty cents.
=Romance of the Harem.= By Miss Pardoe. Complete in one large octavo
volume. Price Fifty cents.
=Confessions of a Pretty Woman.= By Miss Pardoe. Complete in one large
octavo volume. Price Fifty cents.
=Miss Pardoe’s Complete Works.= _This comprises the whole of the above
Five works, and are bound in cloth, gilt, in one large octavo volume.
Price $2.50._
=The Adopted Heir.= By Miss Pardoe. Two vols., paper. Price $1.00; or
in one vol., cloth, for $1.50.

W. H. MAXWELL’S WORKS.

=Stories of Waterloo.= One of the best books in the English language. One vol. Price Fifty cents. =Brian O’Lynn=; or, Luck is Everything. Price 50 cents. =Wild Sports in West.= 50 cents.

SAMUEL C. WARREN’S BOOKS.

=Ten Thousand a Year.= Complete in two volumes, paper cover. Price One
Dollar; or a finer edition, in one volume, cloth, for $1.50.
=Diary of a Medical Student.= By author of “Ten Thousand a Year.”
Complete in one octavo volume, paper cover. Price 50 cents.

EMERSON BENNETT’S WORKS.

=The Border Rover.= Fine edition bound in cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =Clara Moreland.= Fine edition bound in cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =The Forged Will.= Fine edition bound in cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =Ellen Norbury.= Fine edition bound in cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =Bride of the Wilderness.= Fine edition bound in cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =Kate Clarendon.= Fine edition bound in cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =Viola.= Fine edition, cloth, for $1.50; or Railroad Edition for One Dollar. =Heiress of Bellefonte and Walde-Warren.= Price 50 cents. =Pioneer’s Daughter; and the Unknown Countess.= 50 cents.

DOESTICKS’ BOOKS.

=Doesticks’ Letters.= Complete in two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth $1.50. =Plu-ri-bus-tah.= Complete in two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth, $1.50. =The Elephant Club.= Complete in two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or in one vol., cloth, $1.50. =Witches of New York.= Complete in two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or in one vol., cloth, $1.50. =Nothing to Say.= Illustrated. Price 50 cents.

DR. HOLLICK’S WORKS.

=Dr. Hollick’s Anatomy and Physiology=; with a large Dissected Plate of
the Human Figure. Price $1.25, bound.
=Dr. Hollick’s Family Physician.= A Pocket-Guide for Everybody.
Complete in one volume, paper cover. Price 25 cents.

SMOLLETT’S AND FIELDING’S GREAT WORKS.

=Peregrine Pickle=; and His Adventures. Two vols., octavo. $1.00. =Humphrey Clinker.= 50 cents. =Tom Jones.= Two volumes. $1.00. =Amelia.= One volume. Fifty cents. =Joseph Andrews.= Fifty cents.

MILITARY NOVELS.

By Lever, Dumas, and other Authors.

With Illuminated Military Covers, in Colors.

Published and for sale at wholesale, by the single copy, or by the
dozen, hundred, or thousand, at very low rates.

_Their Names are as Follows_:

=Charles O’Malley= _Price_ 50 =Jack Hinton, the Guardsman= 50 =The Knight of Gwynne= 50 =Harry Lorrequer= 50 =Tom Burke of Ours= 50 =Arthur O’Leary= 50 =Con Cregan’s Adventures= 50 =Kate O’Donoghue= 50 =Horace Templeton= 50 =Davenport Dunn= 50 =Following the Drum= 50 =The Conscript=, 2 vols., each 50 =Valentine Vox= 50 =Twin Lieutenants= 50 =Stories of Waterloo= 50 =The Soldier’s Wife= 50 =Guerilla Chief= 50 =The Three Guardsmen= 75 =Twenty Years After= 75 =Bragelonne=, the Son of Athos 75 =Wallace, Hero of Scotland= 75 =Forty-five Guardsmen= 75 =The Quaker Soldier=, Two volumes, each 50

Sutlers in the Army, Booksellers, Pedlars and Canvassers, can sell thousands of the above works, all of which are published with Illuminated Military covers in colors, making them the most attractive and saleable books ever printed.

REYNOLDS’ GREAT WORKS.

=Mysteries of the Court of London.= Complete in one large volume, bound in cloth for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, price One Dollar. =Rose Foster=; or, “The Second Series of the Mysteries of the Court of London.” 1 vol., cloth. $2.00; or in three volumes, paper cover, price $1.50. =Caroline of Brunswick=; or, the “Third Series of the Mysteries of the Court of London.” Complete in one large vol., bound in cloth, for $1.50; or in two vols., paper cover, for $1.00. =Venetia Trelawney=; being the “Fourth Series, or final conclusion of the Mysteries of the Court of London.” Complete in one volume, in cloth, for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar. =Lord Saxondale=; or, The Court of Queen Victoria. Complete in one large vol., cloth, for $1.50; or in two vols., paper cover, price One Dollar. =Count Cristoval.= The “Sequel to Lord Saxondale.” Complete in one vol., bound in cloth for $1.50; or in two vols., paper cover, price $1.00. =The Necromancer.= A Romance of the Times of Henry the Eighth. One vol., bound in cloth, for $1.50; or in two vols., paper cover, price $1.00. =Rosa Lambert=; or, The Memoirs of an Unfortunate Woman. One vol., bound in cloth for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, price $1.00. =Mary Price=; or The Adventures of a Servant-Maid. Complete in one vol., bound in cloth, for $1.50; or in two vols., paper cover, price $1.00. =Eustace Quentin.= A “Sequel to Mary Price.” Complete in one large vol., bound in cloth for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, price $1.00. =Joseph Wilmot=; or The Memoirs of a Man-Servant. Complete in one vol., bound in cloth, for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, price $1.00. =The Banker’s Daughter.= A Sequel to “Joseph Wilmot.” Complete in one vol., cloth, for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, price $1.00. =Kenneth.= A Romance of the Highlands. Complete in one large volume, bound in cloth, for $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, price $1.00. =The Rye-House Plot=; or Ruth, the Conspirator’s Daughter. One vol., bound in cloth, for $1.50; or in two vols., paper cover, price One Dollar. =Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.= Complete in one large 8vo. vol 50 cts. =May Middleton=; or, the History of a Fortune. Price 50 cents. =The Opera Dancer=; or, The Mysteries of London Life. Complete in one vol. Price 50 cents. =The Ruined Gamester=. With Illustrations. Complete in one large octavo vol. Price Fifty cents. =Wallace: the Hero of Scotland.= Illustrated with Thirty-eight plates. Price 75 cents. =The Child of Waterloo=; or, The Horrors of the Battle Field. Complete in one vol. Price 50 cents. =The Countess and the Page.= Complete in one large vol. Price 50 cts. =Ciprina; or, The Secrets of a Picture Gallery.= Complete in one vol. Price 50 cents. =Robert Bruce: the Hero King of Scotland=, with his Portrait. One vol. Price 50 cents. =Isabella Vincent=; or, The Two Orphans. One vol., paper cover. 50 cts. =Vivian Bertram=; or, A Wife’s Honor. A Sequel to “Isabella Vincent.” One vol. Price 50 cents. =The Countess of Lascelles.= The Continuation to “Vivian Bertram.” One vol. Price 50 cents. =Duke of Marchmont.= Being the Conclusion of “The Countess of Lascelles.” Price Fifty cents. =Gipsy Chief.= Beautifully Illustrated. Complete in one large 8vo. vol. 75 cts. =Pickwick Abroad.= A Companion to the “Pickwick Papers,” by “Boz.” One vol. Price 50 cents. =Queen Joanna; or, the Mysteries of the Court of Naples.= Price 50 cents. =The Loves of the Harem.= 50 cts. =The Discarded Queen.= One vol. 50 cents. =Ellen Percy=; or, Memoirs of an Actress. Price 50 cts. =Massacre of Glencoe.= 50 cents. =Agnes Evelyn=; or, Beauty and Pleasure. 50 cents. =The Parricide.= Beautifully Illustrated. 50 cents. =Life in Paris.= Handsomely Illustrated. 50 cents. =The Soldier’s Wife.= Illustrated. 50 cents. =Clifford and the Actress.= 50 cts. =Edgar Montrose.= One vol. 25 cts.

T. S. ARTHUR’S BEST WORKS.

_Price Twenty-Five Cents each._

=The Lady at Home.= =Year after Marriage.= =Cecilia Howard.= =Orphan Children.= =Love in High Life.= =Debtor’s Daughter.= =Agnes; or, The Possessed.= =Love in a Cottage.= =Mary Moreton.= =The Divorced Wife.= =The Two Brides.= =Lucy Sandford.= =The Banker’s Wife.= =The Two Merchants.= =Insubordination.= =Trial and Triumph.= =The Iron Rule.= =Pride and Prudence.= =Lizzie Glenn; or, The Trials of a Seamstress.= By T. S. Arthur. One vol., cloth, gilt. Price $1.50, or in two vols., paper cover, for $1.00.

CHARLES J. PETERSON’S WORKS.

=Kate Aylesford.= A Love Story. Two vols., paper. Price $1.00; or in
one vol., cloth, for $1.50.
=The Old Stone Mansion.= By Charles J. Peterson. Two vols., paper.
Price $1.00; or in cloth, for $1.50.
=Cruising in the Last War.= By Charles J. Peterson. Complete in one
volume. Price 50 cents.
=The Valley Farm=; or, The Autobiography of an Orphan. A Companion to
Jane Eyre. Price 25 cents.
=Grace Dudley=; or, Arnold at Saratoga. Complete in one octavo volume.
Price 25 cents.
=Mabel=; or, Darkness and Dawn. Two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or
in cloth, $1.50. (_In Press._)

J. F. SMITH’S WORKS.

=The Usurer’s Victim; or Thomas Balscombe.= One volume, octavo. Price
50 cents.
=Adelaide Waldgrave=; or the Trials of a Governess. One volume octavo.
Price 50 cents.

WAVERLEY NOVELS.

=The Waverley Novels.= By Sir Walter Scott. With a magnificent Portrait
of Sir Walter Scott, engraved from the last Portrait for which he
ever sat, at Abbottsford, with his Autograph under it. This edition
is complete in Five large octavo volumes, with handsomely engraved
steel Title Pages to each volume, the whole being neatly and
handsomely bound in cloth. This is the cheapest and most complete and
perfect edition of the Waverley Novels published in the world, as it
contains all the Author’s last additions and corrections. Price Ten
Dollars for a complete and entire set bound in cloth.

CHEAP EDITION IN PAPER COVER.

This edition is published in Twenty-Six volumes, paper cover, price thirty-eight cents each, or the whole twenty-six volumes, will be sold or sent to any one, free of postage, for Eight Dollars.

_The following are their names._

=The Heart of Mid Lothian=, =Guy Mannering=, =The Antiquary=, =Old Mortality=, =St. Ronan’s Well=, =The Bride of Lammermoor=, =Highland Widow=, =Ivanhoe=, =Rob Roy=, =Waverley=, =Tales of a Grandfather=, =Kenilworth=, =Fair Maid Perth=, =Fortunes of Nigel=, =Peveril of the Peak=, =Count Robert of Paris=, =The Pirate=, =The Abbot=, =Red Gauntlet=, =The Talisman=, =Quentin Durward=, =The Monastery=, =Woodstock=, =Anne of Geierstein=, =The Betrothed=, =Castle Dangerous, and Surgeon’s Daughter=, =Black Dwarf and Legend of Montrose.= =Moredun.= Price 50 cents. =Lockhart’s Life of Scott.= Complete in one volume, cloth. Price $1.50.

WALTER SCOTT’S PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS.

We also publish Sir Walter Scott’s complete Prose and Poetical Works, in ten large octavo volumes, bound in cloth. This edition contains every thing ever written by Sir Walter Scott. Price Twenty Dollars for a complete set.

EUGENE SUE’S GREAT NOVELS.

=Illustrated Wandering Jew.= With Eighty-seven large Illustrations. Complete in two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =Mysteries of Paris=; and Gerolstein, the Sequel to it. Complete in two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one volume, cloth, for $1.50. =Martin the Foundling.= Beautifully Illustrated. Two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar; or in one vol., cloth, for $1.50. =First Love.= Price 25 cents. =Woman’s Love.= Illustrated. 25 cts. =The Man-of-War’s-Man.= 25 cts. =The Female Bluebeard.= 25 cts. =Raoul de Surville.= Price 25 cts.

SIR E. L. BULWER’S NOVELS.

=Falkland.= A Novel. One volume, octavo. Price 25 cents. =The Roue=; or the Hazards of Women. Price 25 cents. =The Oxonians.= A Sequel to “The Roue.” Price 25 cents. =Calderon, the Courtier.= By Sir E. L. Bulwer. Price 12 cents.

HUMOROUS AMERICAN WORKS.

With Original Illustrations by Darley and Others.

Done up in Illuminated Covers.

Being the most Humorous and Laughable Books ever printed in the English
Language.

=Major Jones’ Courtship.= With Thirteen Illustrations, from designs by Darley. Price 50 cents. =Drama in Pokerville.= By J. M. Field. With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =Louisiana Swamp Doctor.= By author of “Cupping on the Sternum.” Illustrated by Darley. Price 50 cents. =Charcoal Sketches.= By Joseph C. Neal. With Illustrations. 50 cents. =Yankee Amongst the Mermaids.= By W. E. Burton. With Illustrations by Darley. 50 cents. =Misfortunes of Peter Faber.= By Joseph C. Neal. With Illustrations by Darley. Price 50 cents. =Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel.= With Illustrations, from designs by Darley. Price 50 cents. =Quarter Race in Kentucky.= By W. T. Porter, Esq. With Illustrations by Darley. 50 cents. =Sol. Smith’s Theatrical Apprenticeship.= Illustrated by Darley. Price Fifty Cents. =Yankee Yarns and Yankee Letters.= By Sam Slick, alias Judge Haliburton. Price 50 cts. =Life and Adventures of Col. Vanderbomb.= By the author of “Wild Western Scenes.” 50 cents. =Big Bear of Arkansas.= Edited by Wm. T. Porter. With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =Major Jones’ Chronicles of Pineville.= With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =Life and Adventures of Percival Maberry.= By J. H. Ingraham. Price Fifty cents. =Frank Forester’s Quorndon Hounds.= By H. W. Herbert. With Illustrations. Price 50 cents. =Pickings from the “Picayune.”= With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =Frank Forester’s Shooting Box.= With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =Peter Ploddy.= By author of “Charcoal Sketches.” With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =Western Scenes; or, Life on the Prairie.= Illustrated by Darley. Price 50 cents. =Streaks of Squatter Life.= By author of “Major Jones’ Courtship.” Illustrated by Darley. 50 cents. =Simon Suggs.—Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs.= Illustrated by Darley. 50 cents. =Stray Subjects Arrested and Bound Over.= With Illustrations by Darley. Fifty cents. =Frank Forester’s Deer Stalkers.= With Illustrations. 50 cents. =Adventures of Captain Farrago.= By Hon. H. H. Brackenridge. Illustrated. Price 50 cents. =Widow Rugby’s Husband.= By author of “Simon Suggs.” With Illustrations. Fifty cents. =Major O’Regan’s Adventures.= By Hon. H. H. Brackenridge. With Illustrations by Darley. Fifty cents. =Theatrical Journey—Work and Anecdotal Recollections of Sol. Smith, Esq.= Price 50 cents. =Polly Peablossom’s Wedding.= By the author of “Major Jones’ Courtship.” Fifty cents. =Frank Forester’s Warwick Woodlands.= With beautiful Illustrations. Price 50 cents. =New Orleans Sketch Book.= By “Stahl.” With Illustrations by Darley. Price Fifty cents. =The Love Scrapes of Fudge Fumble.= By author of “Arkansaw Doctor.” Price Fifty cents. =American Joe Miller.= With 100 Illustrations. Price Twenty-five cents. =Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories.= Two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or cloth, $1.50. =Humors of Falconbridge.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar or in one vol., cloth, $1.50.

GUSTAVE AIMARD’S WORKS.

=The Prairie Flower.= One vol., octavo, paper cover, price 50 cents, or bound in cloth for 75 cents. =The Indian Scout.= One volume, octavo, paper cover, price fifty cents, or bound in cloth for 75 cts. =The Trail Hunter.= One volume, octavo, paper cover, price fifty cents, or bound in cloth for 75 cts. =The Pirates of the Prairies.= One vol., paper cover, price 50 cents or bound in cloth, for 75 cents. =The Trapper’s Daughter.= One volume, paper cover. Price 50 cents. =The Tiger Slayer.= One volume, octavo, paper cover. Price 50 cents. =The Gold Seekers.= One volume, octavo, paper cover. Price 50 cents.

_All of Aimard’s other books are in press by us._

GEORGE SAND’S WORKS.

=Consuelo.= By George Sand. Translated from the French, by Fayette
Robinson. Complete and unabridged. One volume. Price Fifty cents.
=Countess of Rudolstadt.= The Sequel to “Consuelo.” Translated from
original French. Complete and unabridged edition. Price 50 cents.
=First and True Love.= By author of “Consuelo,” “Indiana,” etc.
Illustrated. Price 50 cents.
=The Corsair.= Price 50 cents.
=Indiana.= By author of “Consuelo,” etc. A very bewitching and
interesting work. Two vols., paper cover $1.00; or in one vol.,
cloth, for $1.50.

LIEBIG’S WORKS ON CHEMISTRY.

=Agricultural Chemistry.= By Baron Justus Liebig. Complete and unabridged. Price 50 cents. =Animal Chemistry.= Complete and unabridged. Price 25 cents. =Familiar Letters on Chemistry.= =Chemistry and Physics= in relation to Physiology and Pathology. =The Potato Disease.=

The whole of the above Five works of Professor Liebig are also published complete in one large octavo volume, bound. Price $2.00. The three last works are only published in the bound volume.

HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATED WORKS.

=High Life in New York.= By Jonathan Slick. Beautifully Illustrated.
Two vols., paper cover. One Dollar; or bound in one vol., cloth,
$1.50.
=Sam Slick, the Clockmaker.= By Judge Haliburton. Illustrated. One
volume, cloth, $1.50; or in two volumes, paper cover, for $1.00.
=Major Jones’ Courtship and Travels.= Beautifully illustrated. One
vol., cloth. Price $1.50.
=Major Jones’ Scenes in Georgia.= Full of beautiful illustrations. One
vol., cloth. Price $1.50.
=Simon Suggs’ Adventures and Travels.= Illustrated. One volume, cloth.
Price $1.50.
=Major Thorpe’s Scenes in Arkansaw=: containing the whole of the
“Quarter Race in Kentucky,” and “Bob Herring, the Arkansas Bear
Hunter,” to which is added the “Drama in Pokerville.” With Sixteen
illustrations from Designs by Darley. Complete in one vol., cloth.
$1.50.
=Humors of Falconbridge.= Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar; or
in one vol., cloth, for $1.50.
=Piney Woods Tavern; or, Sam Slick in Texas.= Cloth, $1.50; or 2 vols.,
paper cover, $1.00.
=Yankee Stories.= By Judge Haliburton. Two vols., paper cover. Price
$1.00; or bound in cloth, for $1.50.
=The Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in the South-West.= Containing the whole
of the Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and
Far-Western Scenes. With 14 Illustrations from designs by Darley.
Cloth. Price $1.50.
=The Big Bear’s Adventure and Travels=: containing all of the
Adventures and Travels of the “Big Bear of Arkansaw,” and “Stray
Subjects.” With Eighteen Illustrations from Original Designs by
Darley. One vol., bound. Price $1.50.
=Frank Forester’s Sporting Scenes and Characters.= Illustrated. Two
vols., cloth, $3.00.

CAPTAIN MARRYATT’S WORKS.

_Price Twenty-Five Cents each._

=Japhet in Search of a Father.= =Snarleyow.= =King’s Own.= =Newton Forster.= =Pirate and Three Cutters.= =Phantom Ship.= =Jacob Faithful.= =The Naval Officer.= =Pacha of many Tales.= =Midshipman Easy.= =Rattlin, the Reefer.= =Percival Keene.= Price 50 cents. =Peter Simple.= 50 cents. =Sea King.= 50 cents. =Poor Jack.= 50 cents. =Valerie.= 50 cents.

GEORGE LIPPARD’S WORKS.

=Legends of the American Revolution=; or, Washington and his Generals. Two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar. =The Quaker City=; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. Two volumes, paper cover. Price One Dollar. =Paul Ardenheim=; the Monk of Wissahikon. Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar. =Blanche of Brandywine.= A Revolutionary Romance. Two vols., paper cover. Price One Dollar. =The Lady of Albarone=; or, The Poison Goblet. One vol., paper cover. Price 75 cents. =The Nazarene.= One vol. 50 cents. =Legends of Mexico.= One volume. Price 25 cents.

DOW’S PATENT SERMONS.

☞ Each volume, or series, is complete in itself, and either of the volumes are sold separately to any one, or in sets.

=Dow’s Short Patent Sermons. First Series.= By =Dow, Jr.= Containing
128 Sermons. Complete in one vol., bound in cloth, for $1.00; or in
one vol., paper, for 75 cents.
=Dow’s Short Patent Sermons. Second Series.= By =Dow, Jr.= Containing
144 Sermons. Complete in one vol., bound in cloth, for $1.00; or in
one vol., paper, for 75 cents.
=Dow’s Short Patent Sermons. Third Series.= By =Dow, Jr.= Containing
116 Sermons. Complete in one vol., bound in cloth, for $1.00; or in
one vol., paper, for 75 cents.
=Dow’s Short Patent Sermons. Fourth Series.= By =Dow, Jr.= Containing
152 Sermons. Complete in one vol., bound in cloth, for $1.00; or in
one vol., paper, for 75 cents.

ADVENTURES AND TRAVELS.

=What I Saw; and Where I Went.= Being the private daily Journal and
Letters of an educated Gentleman of Leisure and Fortune, who went
abroad to see the Sights, and saw them. Price 75 cents in paper; or
in cloth, for One Dollar.
=Life & Adventures of Paul Periwinkle.= Price 50 cents.
=Adventures in Africa.= By Major Cornwallis Harris. This book is a rich
treat. Two vols., paper, $1.00; or in cloth, $1.50.
=Don Quixotte.—Life and Adventures of Don Quixotte=; and his Squire,
Sancho Panza. Two vols., paper cover. Price $1.00; or in one volume,
cloth, for $1.50.

MILITARY WORKS.

=The Soldier’s Guide.= A Complete Manual and Drill Book, for the use of
Soldiers and Volunteers. Price 25 cents in paper, or forty cents in
cloth.
=The Soldier’s Companion.=—With valuable information from the “Army
Regulations,” for the use of all Officers and Volunteers. Price 25
cts. in paper cover, or 40 cts. in cloth.
=Ellsworth’s “Zouave Drill” and Biography.= Price 25 cents in paper, or
forty cents in cloth.
=The Volunteers’ Text Book.= This Work contains the whole of “The
Soldier’s Guide,” as well as the whole of “The Soldier’s Companion.”
Price 50 cents in paper, or 75 cents in cloth.
=The United States’ Light Infantry Drill.= Price 25 cents in paper
cover, or forty cents in cloth.
=United States’ Government Infantry and Rifle Tactics=, full of
engravings. Price 25 cents.

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=THE MAID OF HONOR—a Story of Queen Bess=,

By ANN S. STEPHENS.

=THE LOST ESTATE—a Story of To-Day=

By the author of “The
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=MAUD’S SUMMER AT SARATOGA=,

By FRANK LEE BENEDICT.

=FANNY’S FLIRTATION=,

By ELLA RODMAN.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

● Fixed typos; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. ● Enclosed bold font in =equals=.