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LEAH MORDECAI. A NOVEL.

BY MRS. BELLE KENDRICK ABBOTT.
NEW YORK:

1856.

TO MY BELOVED UNCLE, THE REV. J. RYLAND KENDRICK, D.D., WHOSE HOSPITABLE HOME I ONCE SPENT MANY HAPPY DAYS—DAYS MADE FOR EVER BRIGHT BY THE LOVE OF HIS GREAT HEART, LOVE THAT FLOWED LIKE A PURE STREAM FROM A CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN, ABOUND AND ABOUT MY YOUNG LIFE— THIS BOOK IS MOST TENDERLY
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

ATLANTA, GA, November, 1875.

LEAH MORDECAI.

CHAPTER I.