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BY
Mrs. E. PRENTISS,
AUTHOR OF "STEPPING HEAVENWARD;" "AUNT JANE'S HERO;"
"FLOWER OF THE FAMILY," ETC.
NEW YORK:
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY,
900 BROADWAY, Cor. 20th Street.
1876.
Copyright, 1876, byAnson D. F. Randolph & Company.
Mrs. Grey had been the happy mother of seven children; they all livedto grow up and marry, and to rise up and call her blessed, with theexception of her youngest daughter, Maud. People said it was a wiseand kind thing on the part of Providence, that Maud was not one ofthe marrying sort. Her mother needed one child to help her down thedeclivity of life, and it was delightful to see them together. Somewho were not acquainted with them, and who only knew them by sight, atchurch, contrived to see, out of the backs of their heads, that thesetwain could not live with