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[Illustration: SILVER LAKE]

MELBOURNE HOUSE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

"Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and
whether it be right."—PROV. xx. II.

VOL. II.

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NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 530 BROADWAY. 1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS,