CHAPTER VIII "COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE."
CHAPTER IX. OLD FRIENDS MEET
CHAPTER X. DREAMING
CHAPTER XI. SOMETHING NEW
CHAPTER XII. RICHMOND HOUSE GETS A MISTRESS
CHAPTER XIII. AWAKENING
CHAPTER XIV. A DREAM COMING TRUE
CHAPTER XV. SOWING THE WIND
CHAPTER XVI. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER XVII. GONE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DAWN OF ANOTHER DAY
CHAPTER XIX. DESOLATION
CHAPTER XX. FOUND AND LOST
CHAPTER XXI. CHARLEY'S CRIME
CHAPTER XXII. THE SUN RISES
CHAPTER XXIII. OVER THE WORLD
CHAPTER XXIV. AT LAST!
CHAPTER XXV "AFTER TEARS AND WEEPING, HE POURETH IN JOYFULNESS."
CHAPTER XXVI "LAST SCENE OF ALL."
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The road to the old house was as familiar to Miss Jerusha as a road could well be to any one, yet she found it extremely difficult to make her way to it to-night. The piercing sleet dashed into her very eyes, blinding her, as she floundered on, and the raw, cutting wind penetrated even the warm folds of her thick woolen mantle. Now and then she would have to stop and catch hold of a tree, to brace her body against the fierce, cutting blasts, and then, with bent head and closed eyes, plunge on through the huge snow-heaps and thick drifts.
She had not fully realized the violence of the storm until now, and she thought, with a sharp pang of remorse, of the slight, delicate child she had turned from her door to brave its pitiless fury.
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"Georgia, love, go and sit down. Oh, you wild, stormy, savage child, what ever will become of you when I am gone? Do, pray, excuse her," said the woman, faintly, lifting her eyes pleadingly to Miss Jerusha's angry face; "she has had no one to control her, or subdue her wild, willful temper, and has grown up a crazy, mad-headed, half-tamed thing. If you have children of your own, you will know how to make allowance for her."
"I have no children of my own, and I thank goodness that I haven't!" said Miss Jerusha, shortly; "a set of plagues, the whole of 'em! Ef that there little gal was mine, I'd spank her while I could stand, and see ef that wouldn't take some of the nonsense out of her."
