BY
HER DAUGHTER.


Contents

[I. CHRISTIE]
[II. SERVANT]
[III. ACTRESS]
[IV. GOVERNESS]
[V. COMPANION]
[VI. SEAMSTRESS]
[VII. THROUGH THE MIST]
[VIII. A CURE FOR DESPAIR]
[IX. MRS. WILKINS’S MINISTER]
[X. BEGINNING AGAIN]
[XI. IN THE STRAWBERRY BED]
[XII. CHRISTIE’S GALA]
[XIII. WAKING UP]
[XIV. WHICH?]
[XV. MIDSUMMER]
[XVI. MUSTERED IN]
[XVII. THE COLONEL]
[XVIII. SUNRISE]
[XIX. LITTLE HEART’S-EASE]
[XX. AT FORTY]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS,

FROM DRAWINGS BY SOL EYTINGE.

[“How doth the little busy bee”]
[Christie]
[Aunt Betsey’s Interlarded Speech]
[Mrs. Stuart.]
[Hepsey]
[Christie as Queen of the Amazons]
[Mr. Philip Fletcher]
[Mrs. Saltonstall and Family]
[“No, I thank you”]
[Helen Carrol]
[Mrs. King and Miss Cotton]
[The Rescue]
[“C. Wilkins, Clear Starcher”]
[Lisha Wilkins]
[Mrs. Wilkins’ “Six Lively Infants”]
[Mr. Power]
[Mrs. Sterling]
[David and Christie in the Greenhouse]
[Mr. Power and Christie in the Strawberry Bed]
[A Friendly Chat]
[Kitty.]
[“One Happy Moment”]
[David]
[“Then they were married”]
[“Don’t mourn, dear heart, but WORK”]
[“She’s a good little gal; looks consid’able like you”]
[“Each ready to do her part to hasten the coming of the happy end”]

WORK:
A STORY OF EXPERIENCE.

CHAPTER I.
CHRISTIE.