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.