Copyright, 1888
NORMAN L. MUNRO
Renewal for 28 years, from
November 8, 1916, granted
to Mrs. Alex. McVeigh
Miller
Love Conquers Pride
(Printed in the United States of America)
LOVE CONQUERS PRIDE.
CHAPTER I.
A PRETTY FACTORY GIRL.
Pretty Pansy lay lazily in the hammock at the foot of the lawn, and listened to the south wind rushing through the tree tops overhead, thinking to herself, with a blush, that it seemed to be whispering a name—whispering it over and over:
“Norman Wylde!”
At the top of the green, sloping lawn stood a big white farmhouse, with long porches shaded by rose vines and honeysuckles. Pansy’s uncle and aunt lived there, and she had come on a month’s visit to them. The month was slipping away very fast now, and she must soon return to her work in Richmond, for Pansy Laurens was no pampered favorite of fortune, but an employee of one of the great tobacco factories.
Pansy was only fifteen when her father, a machinist at the Tredegar Works, had died and left his wife and five children penniless, save for what they could earn by the labor of their own hands. Pansy was the eldest, and her mother had to take her from school that the labor of her little white hands might help to earn the family support.