FAMILY PRIDE
OR
Purified by Suffering
BY MARY J. HOLMES
Author of "Dora Deane," "The English Orphans," "Homestead on the Hillside," "Tempest and Sunshine," "Lena Rivers," "Meadowbrook," "Cousin Maude," etc., etc.
[CHAPTER I. THE FARMHOUSE AT SILVERTON]
[CHAPTER II. LINWOOD.]
[CHAPTER III. WILFORD CAMERON.]
[CHAPTER IV. PREPARING FOR THE VISIT.]
[CHAPTER V. WILFORD'S VISIT.]
[CHAPTER VI. IN THE SPRING.]
[CHAPTER VII. WILFORD'S SECOND VISIT.]
[CHAPTER VIII. GETTING READY TO BE MARRIED.]
[CHAPTER IX. BEFORE THE MARRIAGE.]
[CHAPTER X. MARRIAGE AT ST. JOHN'S.]
[CHAPTER XI. AFTER THE MARRIAGE.]
[CHAPTER XII. FIRST MONTH OF MARRIED LIFE.]
[CHAPTER XIII. KATY'S FIRST EVENING IN NEW YORK.]
[CHAPTER XIV. EXTRACTS FROM BELL CAMERON'S DIARY.]
[CHAPTER XV. TONING DOWN.]
[CHAPTER XVI. KATY.]
[CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW HOUSE.]
[CHAPTER XVIII. MARIAN HAZELTON.]
[CHAPTER XIX. SARATOGA AND NEWPORT.]
[CHAPTER XX. MARK RAY AT SILVERTON.]
[CHAPTER XXI. A NEW LIFE.]
[CHAPTER XXII. HELEN IN SOCIETY.]
[CHAPTER XXIII. GENEVRA.]
[CHAPTER XXIV. THE NAME.]
[CHAPTER XXV. TROUBLE IN THE HOUSEHOLD.]
[CHAPTER XXVI. HOW IT ENDED.]
[CHAPTER XXVII. AUNT BETSY GOES ON A JOURNEY.]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. AUNT BETSY CONSULTS A LAWYER.]
[CHAPTER XXIX. THE DINNER PARTY.]
[CHAPTER XXX. THE SEVENTH REGIMENT.]
[CHAPTER XXXI. KATY GOES TO SILVERTON.]
[CHAPTER XXXII. LITTLE GENEVRA.]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. AFTER THE FUNERAL.]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. THE FIRST WIFE.]
[CHAPTER XXXV. WHAT THE PAGE DISCLOSED.]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. THE EFFECT.]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. THE INTERVIEW.]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. GETTING HOME.]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. THE FEVER AND ITS RESULTS.]
[CHAPTER XL. MORRIS' CONFESSION.]
[CHAPTER XLI. DOMESTIC TROUBLES.]
[CHAPTER XLII. DISAPPEARED.]
[CHAPTER XLIII. WHAT FOLLOWED.]
[CHAPTER XLIV. MARK AND HELEN.]
[CHAPTER XLV. CHRISTMAS EVE AT SILVERTON.]
[CHAPTER XLVI. AFTER CHRISTMAS EVE.]
[CHAPTER XLVII. GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL.]
[CHAPTER XLVIII. LAST HOURS.]
[CHAPTER XLIX. MOURNING.]
[CHAPTER L. PRISONERS OF WAR.]
[CHAPTER LI. DR. GRANT.]
[CHAPTER LII. KATY.]
[CHAPTER LIII. THE PRISONERS.]
[CHAPTER LIV. THE DAY OF THE WEDDING.]
[CHAPTER LV. THE WEDDING.]
[CHAPTER LVI. CONCLUSION.]
CHAPTER I.
THE FARMHOUSE AT SILVERTON.
Uncle Ephraim Barlow, deacon of the orthodox church in Silverton, Massachusetts, was an old-fashioned man, clinging to the old-time customs of his fathers, and looking with but little toleration upon what he termed the "new-fangled notions" of the present generation. Born and reared amid the rocks and hills of the Bay State, his nature partook largely of the nature of his surroundings, and he grew into manhood with many a rough point adhering to his character, which, nevertheless, taken as a whole, was, like the wild New England scenery, beautiful and grand. None knew Uncle Ephraim Barlow but to respect him, and at the church where he was a worshiper few would have been missed more than the tall, muscular man, with the long, white hair, who Sunday after Sunday walked slowly up the middle aisle to his accustomed seat before the altar, and who regularly passed the contribution box, bowing involuntarily in token of approbation when a neighbor's gift was larger than its wont, and gravely dropping in his own ten cents—never more, never less—always ten cents—his weekly offering, which he knew amounted in a year to just five dollars and twenty cents. And still Uncle Ephraim was not stingy, as the Silverton poor could testify, for many a load of wood and bag of meal found entrance to the doors where cold and hunger would have otherwise been, while to his minister he was literally a holder up of the weary hands, and a comforter in the time of trouble.