ANNA LEE.

THE MAIDEN. THE WIFE.-THE MOTHER.

A Cale.

Maid, wife, and mother; each succeeding tio,
That love reveals from out his hidden stores,
Bringing to light fresh springs, that joyously
Well forth with richest fulness, as each pours
Its wealth of treasures,- found alone complete
Where love out-pours them, at a mother's feet.

Агон.

LONDON:

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND EDINBURGH.

MDCCCLIII.

249. E.706.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. THE MAIDEN.

I. Duty before Pleasure,

II. Gardiner's true Character exhibited,

III. The Beauty and Power of Goodness,

IV. True Maiden Delicacy and its Opposite contrasted,

V. The Maiden's First Strong Trial,

VI. Tried and Proved.

VII. A Disappointment, .

VIII. A wise selection of Friends,

IX. Catching Husbands,

X. A New Lover,

XI. An Impression made,

XII. Wooed and Won,

II. A Thoughtless Woman of the World-Florence Armitage,

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ANNA LEE.

I. THE MAIDEN.

II. THE WIFE.

III. THE MOTHER.

I. THE MAIDEN.

CHAPTER I.-DUTY BEFORE PLEASURE.

"ANNA, dear," said Mrs Lee in a quiet tone to her eldest daughter, a young maiden over whose head the blossoms of only eighteen happy summers had fallen, “it is time you were beginning to dress for the party at Mrs Leslie's."

Anna Lee sat sewing near a window, and was bending closer towards the light, as it was beginning gradually to withdraw before the shadows of an autumn evening. She let the work fall into her lap, and mused for a short time. Then turning her soft blue eyes upon her mother, she said,

"I believe I won't go this evening."