Winter Evening Tales

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Amelia E. Barr. Winter Evening Tales

Winter Evening Tales

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CASH

Part I

Part II

FRANZ MÜLLER'S WIFE

THE VOICE AT MIDNIGHT

SIX, AND HALF-A-DOZEN

THE STORY OF DAVID MORRISON

TOM DUFFAN'S DAUGHTER

THE HARVEST OF THE WIND

Chapter I

Chapter II

THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF PRESTON

MARGARET SINCLAIR'S SILENT MONEY

JUST WHAT HE DESERVED

Chapter II

AN ONLY OFFER

TWO FAIR DECEIVERS

THE TWO MR. SMITHS

THE STORY OF MARY NEIL

THE HEIRESS OF KURSTON CHACE

"ONLY THIS ONCE."

PETRALTO'S LOVE STORY

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Amelia E. Barr

Published by Good Press, 2019

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This conversation took place one lovely Sabbath evening, and just at the same time David was standing thoughtfully on Princes street, Edinburgh, wondering to which church he had better turn his steps. For a sudden crisis in the affairs of a bank in that city had brought him hurriedly to Scotland, and he was not only a prudent man who considered public opinion, but was also in a mood to conciliate that opinion so long as the outward conditions were favorable. Whatever he might do in London, in Scotland he always went to morning and evening service.

He was also one of those self-dependent men who dislike to ask questions or advice from anyone. Though a comparative stranger he would not have allowed himself to think that anyone could direct him better than he could choose for himself. He looked up and down the street, and finally followed a company which increased continually until they entered an old church in the Canongate.

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