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EBOOK TALES FOR YOUNG AND OLD ***
Produced by Roy Brown
TALES
FOR
YOUNG AND OLD
PREFACE.
When the older were considerably younger, and
young in infancy, the following interesting Tales were
written.
W. & R.C.
CONTENTS.
THE BRIDE'S JOURNEY
THE HOME-WRECK
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
LUCY FENNEL
BILLY EGG
THE PLEDGE REDEEMED
THE TREE AND THE FOREST
THE THREE FRIENDS
THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER
THE BLIND MAN OF ARGENTEUIL
THE BRIDAL WREATH
THE DUKE OF NORMANDY
DUTCH ANNA
THE LOCKSMITH OF PHILADELPHIA
TALES FOR YOUNG AND OLD.
THE BRIDE'S JOURNEY.
BY MRS CROWE.
In the year 1809, when the French were in Prussia, M. Louison, an
officer in the commissariat department of the imperial army,
contracted an attachment for the beautiful Adelaide Hext, the
daughter of a respectable but not wealthy merchant. The young
Frenchman having contrived to make his attachment known, it was
imprudently reciprocated by its object; we say imprudently, for the
French were detested by her father, who declared that no daughter of
his should ever be allied to one of the invaders and occupants of his
beloved country.
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