Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
"This is the boy, Mr. Laurence."
MILES MURCHISON
BY
AGNES GIBERNE
AUTHOR OF
"MISS CON," "SWEETBRIAR," "READY, AYE, READY!"
"LEAST SAID, SOONEST MENDED," "FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS,"
"DAISY OF OLD MEADOW," "OLD UMBRELLAS," ETC.
LONDON
JAMES NISBET & CO.
21 BERNERS STREET
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY.
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY, (continued).
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY, (continued).
IV. FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW.
MRS. KINGSCOTE'S STORY.
MRS. KINGSCOTE'S STORY, (continued).
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY.
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY, (continued).
VIII. A TALK WITH MR. LAURENCE.
MILES' STORY.
MILES' STORY, (continued).
MILES' STORY, (continued).
MILES' STORY, (continued).
MILES' STORY, (continued).
MILES' STORY, (continued).
MILES' STORY, (continued).
XV. AN IMPROVED STATE OF THINGS.
MILES' STORY, (continued).
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY.
MILES MURCHISON.
CHAPTER I.
A DAY'S PLEASURING.
MRS. MURCHISON'S STORY.
I NEVER shall forget that day,—never! Not if I live to be a hundredyears old.
Till then I hadn't known real trouble in life—worth calling trouble,I mean. Of course there were worrie