Our "Christmas Guest" well knows how to furnish forth a feast of infinite variety. Few, if any, will arise from a perusal of her delightful "word-painting" of life, incident, adventure, and character, without being wiser, better, happier; without enjoying a more entire confidingness in Heaven—in Him, that God of love and goodness, whom Christians unite to worship.
London, December 4, 1850.
CONTENTS.
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| [CHAPTER I.] |
| [Introductory], | [9] |
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| [CHAPTER II.] |
| "[The Main Chance]," | [17] |
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| [CHAPTER III.] |
| [The Cradle-Song; a free translation from Körner], | [35] |
| [The Brothers; or, in the Fashion, and Above the Fashion], | [37] |
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| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| [Loss and Gain; or, Hearts versus Diamonds], | [48] |
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| [CHAPTER V.] |
| [The Bird's Release. By Mrs. Hemans], | [70] |
| [The Young Misanthrope], | [72] |
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| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| [Life in America], | [91] |
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| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| [Sunday], | [126] |
| [Evening Hymn], | [128] |
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| [CHAPTER VIII.] |
| [The Wolf Chase], | [133] |
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| [CHAPTER IX.] |
| [The History of an Old Maid], | [140] |
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| [CHAPTER X.] |
| [The Family Meeting], | [166] |
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| [CHAPTER XI.] |
| [The Dying Hebrew], | [169] |
| "[Only a Mechanic]," | [172] |
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| [CHAPTER XII.] |
| [Love and Pride], | [196] |
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| [CHAPTER XIII.] |
| [The Test of Love. A Story of the Last War], | [227] |
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| [CHAPTER XIV.] |
| [The Flower Angels], | [266] |
THE
CHRISTMAS GUEST;
OR,
EVENINGS AT DONALDSON MANOR.