Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part

By AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON
(Augusta J. Evans)
Author of “Beulah,” “Macaria,” “Infelice,” “St. Elmo,” “Inez,” etc., etc.,
“There is nothing a man knows, in grief or in sin half so bitter as to think, what I might have been.”
A. L. BURT COMPANY, Publishers NEW YORK
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869, by GEORGE W. CARLETON, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1897, by MRS. AUGUSTA J. EVANS WILSON, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
Vashti.
TO THE HONORED MEMORY OF MY Beloved Father , WHOSE DEATH HAS RETARDED THE COMPLETION OF A WORK WHICH, IN THE BEGINNING, WAS BLESSED WITH HIS APPROVAL, I REVERENTLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK.

“Every man has his own style, as he has his own nose; and it is neither polite nor Christian to rally an honest man about his nose, however singular it may be. How can I help it that my style is not different? That there is no affectation in it, I am very certain.” Lessing.