“God bless you, my noble little wife.”
The mortgage was paid, and one little home was made happy; and a happy surprise it was to this noble young farmer to think he had a lovely little helpmate.
The End.
Transcriber’s Notes
- The Table of Contents for this eBook was created by the transcriber for the reader's convenience.
- Except for the places noted below, spelling and grammar has been retained from the original text
- Pg. [5] - Corrected typo: Missing space inserted: “Warren,the eldest”
- Pg. [5] - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘,’: “pleasure it afforded. except”
- Pg. [5] - Corrected typo: Missing ‘s’: “her cousin were”
- Pg. [5] - Corrected typo: ‘boquet’ > ‘bouquet’
- Pg. [5] - Corrected typo: “Her cousin. Nettie” > “Her cousin, Nettie”
- Pg. [6] - Changed ‘surprized’ > ‘surprised’ to match rest of text
- Pg. [7] - Corrected typo: ‘boquet’ > ‘bouquet’
- Pg. [8] - Corrected typo: ‘your’ > ‘young’: “What a handsome your man”
- Pg. [9] - Corrected typo: ‘for’ > ‘far’: “wandered for out”
- Pg. [9] - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘?’: “great act of kindness.”
- Pg. [11] - Added missing close quote at chapter end
- Pg. [12] - Removed extra comma: “Why, does mother not tell me”
- Pg. [13] - Missing ‘.’ inserted at paragraph end: “this little lady”
- Pg. [13] - Corrected typo: “resolved never to do” > “resolved ever to do”
- Pg. [14] - Corrected typo: “The depth of love I owe” > “The debt of love I owe”
- Pg. [15] - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘,’: “in the street. springing”
- Pg. [16] - Changed Tis > ’Tis to match rest of text
- Pg. [17] - Corrected typo: ‘boquets’ > ‘bouquets’
- Pg. [17] - Corrected typo: ‘boquet’ > ‘bouquet’
- Pg. [19] - ‘?’ moved inside quote: “where is cousin”?
- Pg. [20] - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘,’: “No. no, I can not”
- Pg. [20] - Corrected typo: single quote to double: “since Monday?’”
- Pg. [21] - Removed extraneous single quote: “‘As he spoke he”
- Pg. [22] - Removed extraneous opening quote: ““Warren saw he was”
- Pg. [22] - Missing double quote inserted at paragraph end: “packing your trunk.”
- Pg. [30] - Corrected typo: ‘then’ > ‘than’: “sooner then”
- Pg. [31] - Changed double quotes to single: ““no” for an answer”
- Pg. [32] - Removed extraneous opening quote: ““Nettie was speaking”
- Pg. [33] - Corrected typo: ‘sustaine’ > ‘sustain’
- Pg. [33] - Added missing ‘.’: “in this country”
- Pg. [33] - Removed extraneous closing quote: “from the story.”
- Pg. [34] - Corrected typo: ‘farwell’ > ‘farewell’
- Pg. [35] - Corrected typo: ‘abscence’ > ‘absence’
- Pg. [35] - Added missing opening quote: “The young man”
- Pg. [35] - Corrected typo: “here in America” > “here to America”
- Pg. [41] - Removed extraneous closing quote: “about her.””
- Pg. [41] - Changed nested quote marks to single: ““No, no, I never ... for a while.””
- Pg. [42] - Removed extraneous closing quote: “dearly loved her.””
- Pg. [43] - Missing closing quote added at paragraph end: “from prying eyes.”
- Pg. [45] - Corrected typo: ‘sincerly’ > ‘sincerely’
- Pg. [46] - Added missing comma: “to his servant, saying “Keep”
- Pg. [46] - Corrected typo: ‘bourne’ > ‘borne’
- Pg. [47] - Corrected typo: ‘drearly’ > ‘drearily’
- Pg. [49] - Corrected typo: ‘friends’ > ‘friend’: “to a friends”
- Pg. [49] - Corrected typo: ‘passonate’ > ‘passionate’
- Pg. [50] - Corrected typo: ‘hr’ > ‘her’
- Pg. [51] - Changed single quote to double to match end: “‘Who is that lady”
- Pg. [52] - Added missing ‘.’: “see me again She burned”
- Pg. [53] - Missing closing quote added at paragraph end: “of the past?”
- Pg. [55] - Added missing opening quote: “And if your mother”
- Pg. [56] - Corrected typo: ‘ond’ > ‘and’