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“Now tell me what is your name?”

 

 

 

A QUIET VALLEY

 

BY

 

AGNES GIBERNE,

 

AUTHOR OF

“GWENDOLINE; OR, HALCOTS AND HALCOMBES,” “THROUGH THE LINN,”

“NUMBER THREE WINIFRED PLACE,” ETC.

 

 

 

REVISED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.

 

 

 

PHILADELPHIA:

THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,

1122 CHESTNUT STREET.

 

NEW YORK: 8 AND 10 BIBLE HOUSE.

 

 

 

THE OXFORD PRESS,

PHILADELPHIA.

 

 

 

CONTENTS.

 

CHAP.

 

I. A WELSH HOTEL

II. THE CHILD

III. A SEARCH

IV. JOAN’S MOTHER

V. THE LETTER

VI. DAUGHTER OF THE HOUSE

VII. THE RED HOUSE

VIII. OLD MR. BROOKE

IX. “GEORGE’S VALLEY”

X. LIFE AND DEATH

XI. CAIRNS FARM

XII. “POLLY”

XIII. A COLLISION

XIV. MARIAN’S FEAR

XV. DULCIBEL’S NURSE

XVI. MOTHER AND CHILD

XVII. TROUBLE STILL

XVIII. ANOTHER MEETING

XIX. ABOUT THE FUTURE

XX. HALL AND FARM

XXI. AN UNLOOKED-FOR VISITOR

XXII. WHAT MIGHT BE

XXIII. A PRESENT HELP

XXIV. JOAN’S CONFESSION

XXV. PERPLEXITY

XXVI. SHOULD SHE GIVE HER UP?

XXVII. THE INTERVIEW

XXVIII. WARFARE

XXIX. HIS CHILD

XXX. THE VALLEY ONCE MORE

 

 

 

A QUIET VALLEY.

 

CHAPTER I.

A WELSH HOTEL.

 

“COME, Dulcie! Dulcie, my dear! Not ready yet?”

A spice of good-humored impatience breathed through the rich basstones. George Rutherford stood in the hall of a somewhat primitiveWelsh hotel. The door opening into a sitting-room, on one side,displayed sundry ladies and gentlemen, o

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