Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
THE EXPERIENCE OF SAMUEL ABSALOM, FILIBUSTER
THE MINISTER'S WOOING.1
CHAPTER XXXV. OLD LOVE AND NEW DUTY
CHAPTER XXXVI. JACOB'S VOW
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE QUESTION OF DUTY
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE TRANSFIGURED
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE ICE BROKEN
CHAPTER XL. THE SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XLI. THE WEDDING
CHAPTER XLII. LAST WORDS
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS AND THE STARS
THOMAS PAINE IN ENGLAND AND IN FRANCE
ELKANAH BREWSTER'S TEMPTATION
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III
"STRANGE COUNTRIES FOR TO SEE."
BEAUTY AT BILLIARDS
THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. WHAT HE SAID, WHAT HE HEARD, AND WHAT HE SAW
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES
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The sun was just setting, and the whole air and sea seemed flooded with rosy rays. Even the crags and rocks of the sea-shore took purple and lilac hues, and savins and junipers, had a painter been required to represent them, would have been found not without a suffusion of the same tints. And through the tremulous rosy sea of the upper air, the silver full-moon looked out like some calm superior presence which waits only for the flush of a temporary excitement to die away, to make its tranquillizing influence felt.
Mary, as she walked homeward with this dreamy light around her, moved with a slower step than when borne along by the vigorous arm and determined motion of her young friend.
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"Oh, I wish somebody would tell me exactly what is right!" she said.
"Well, I will," said Madame de Frontignac. "Go down to the dear priest, and tell him the whole truth. My dear child, do you think, if he should ever find it out after your marriage, he would think you used him right?"
