Once a week Volume 38

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...it was drawn, while the little red, half-parted lips hardly shrank from the kiss they received. "Harry!"roared Richard Pellet,leaping from his chair, for he had been seated opposite to a glass which betrayed every movement of the young people. "Harry!" he roared; and the young man, with eyes cast down, but raised head, stood erect and defiant before him. "Come here," he exclaimed, striding towards the door, while as the delinquent followed him from the room, Jared and his wife distinctly heard the words, " That beggar's brat!" CHAPTER XI.--THE LOVER'S PETITION. A N hour later and the party were back in Duplex.. street, having travelled home in silence, with Patty weeping her sin the whole way, while now she sat sobbing by the fireside, almost heedless of her mother's consoling words. Jared had looked stern and troubled, but not cross; in fact, he had been talking the matter over to himself on the way back, and himself had had the best of the argument, by declaring that it was only a custom of the season; that Harry Clayton was a fine, handsome young fellow, and Patty as sweet a little girl as ever breathed; and that, though the matter had turned into an upset, Harry Clayton was not so much to blame. Jared was beaten by himself--that is to say, by his own good-nature--and, what was more, he seemed so little put out in consequence, that he rode home the rest of the way with his arm round his wife's waist--but then, certainly, it was dark. "There, there!" exclaimed Jared, at last, "go to bed, Patty, and let's have no more tears." He spoke kindly; but Patty could not be consoled, for she told herself that she had been very, very wicked, and if dear father only knew that she had almost held out her lips...