Nan drew Tessa’s cheek down to her lips. (Page 329)

Tessa Wadsworth’s

Discipline

A Story of the Development of a Young Girl’s Life

By Jennie M. Drinkwater

Author of “Growing Up,” “Bek’s First Corner,”

“Miss Prudence,” etc., etc.

“The people that stood below

She knew but little about;

And this story’s a moral, I know,

If you’ll try to find it out.”

A. L. Burt Company, Publishers

New York

Copyright 1879,

By Robert Carter & Brothers.

Dedication.

TO

MY FRIEND

Mary V. Childs.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
1.Hearts that Seemed to Differ[9]
2.The Silent Side[20]
3.The Last Night of the Old Year[31]
4.Somebody New[55]
5.Hearts that were Waiting[65]
6.Another Opportunity[81]
7.The Long Day[90]
8.A Note out of Tune[101]
9.The New Morning[140]
10.Forgetting the Bread[156]
11.On the Highway[162]
12.Good Enough to be True[178]
13.The Heart of Love[188]
14.Wheat, not Bread[211]
15.September[217]
16.A Tangle[244]
17.The Night Before[258]
18.Moods[280]
19.The Old Story[293]
20.Several Things[305]
21.Through[330]
22.Several Other Things[338]
23.What She Meant[362]
24.Shut in[367]
25.Blue Myrtle[377]
26.Another May[390]
27.Sunset[397]
28.Hearts Alike[405]