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No. 423.—Vor. XVIL|
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A NOVEL,
BY
Mrs. Jane G. austin. |:
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SYNOPSIS OF THE PREVIOUE cHaprens. \
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AND WAS oa Jeo, asp BerORE THE BEWILDERED CONSTABLES yy SUCCEEDED IN CHECKING THE HORSE AND REACHING THE GROUND.” .. 2...
sine TH 8 beD, ONFRONTING THE ANGRY MAN WITH Xyps as HAUGHTY A3 HIS OWN, ‘1 JOO WHAT WaS MY RIGHT AND MY SoN’s RIGHT!’ ”
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“THE SON OF A GENTLEM
ing-place. Hom
up, is one snom S0¢iety calls upon him to marry; but he
2 with Honor, and promses not to marry Miss Fotheringay. :
* trides afer, he is seated with his bride, Mise Fotheringay, at
showing her the fami'y jewelu—“the Great Ruby of,
P
we olsneax is the daughter of the tern old squire. She is
Geomied and independent. She shocks a neighboring lady, and
igh- forties ber mother, {by taking, in sport, from Jack Coventry.
nerwomen’s #0) @ basket of clothes, and carrying
street. When/the boy final!y pot it, and delivered the
the kitchen, by sauntered back, but at the gate gets into
Entered according te the Act of Congress, in the year 181s, by Faank Lustig, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington,
NEW YORK, JULY 5, 1873. {Price 10 Crests. fiw
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recommends Mrs. Coventry, hoping thas to get rid of tue famiiarity
tween her son Jack and his daughter,
‘Mrs. Coventry comes to see Mr. Charlecourt; but when the light
is lit, and she sees him, she falls in a fit,
Charlecourt, uneasy, roams out late in the night. He comes across
a dead body, after seeing a figure like a ghost flit by him, and a
young fellow darting off The bo y proves to be that of Charles
Molyneux, and near it # handkerchief, marked “John Coventry,” od
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CHAPTER VIT.—MR, CHARLECOURT’S TESTIMONY.
Tue first faint flush of rose was beginning to soften the gray
of the eastern sky, when Mrs. Coventry, feebly rising from the
bed where she had lain but not slept through this eventful night,
crept softly across the room, without disturbing Betsey or Sally,
still wrapped in their rosy rest, and, stealing in the same
cautious manner down-stairs, let herself out ut the back door,
much in the same way that Mr. Charlecourt bad let himself out
at the front door some hours previously. , Hastening homeward
by a footpath across the fields, she approached her cottage-door
in one direction just as her son Jack did so from the other,
“Mother!” exclaimed the boy. ‘‘ Why, how came you out so
early ?”?
“T haven't been at home all night. . Didn’t you know it?”
dishonest pegro:
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que SON OF A GENTLEMAN.“ HE SUDDENLY LEAPED OVER THE SIDE OF TRE WAGON, BOUNDED LIKE A YOUNG TEER INTO THE DEPTHS OF A THICK WOOD THROUGH WHICH THE ROAD WAS CARRIED,
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I STEAL! I A THIEF |’ EXCLAIMED HONOB,
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