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Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside
Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside Author:Mrs. Oliphant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: B. Tauchnitz Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and t... more »here may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF MRS. MAEGAEET MAITLAN1) OF SUNNYSIDE. WRITTEN BY HERSELF. .. v , nOPTRIGHT EDITION. c. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TADCHNITZ 1862. EP141885 " " Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My staff of peace to rest upon -- My scrip of joy -- immortal diet, My bottle of salvation -- My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus 1 take my pilgrimage -- While my soul, like a quiet! Palmer, Travelleth toward the land of Heaven -- " SIB WALTKIi BALEIGH. PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF MES. MARGARET MAITLAND. CHAPTER I. It has often come into my head that, seeing the threads of Providence have many times a semblance of ravelling, it would be for edification to trace out one here and one there, that folk might see how well woven the web was, into which the Almighty's hand had run them. I doubt not the world will think me bold, being but a quiet woman of discreet years and small riches, in having such an imagination as that it could be the better of hearing the like of my homely story; nevertheless, seeing there are many young folk who are but beginning for their own hand, and know not what may befall them, I think it is right to set down here what has come to pass in my corner of this great earth, and within my own knowledge. It is a troublous water -- the water of life, and it has often given me a sore heart to see young things launched upon it, like bairns' boats, sailing hither and thither in an unp...« less