Two secrets, and, A man of his word

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"I'VE SAID I'LL PUT A STOP TO IT AND I'LL DO IT."

TWO SECRETS AND A MAN OF HIS WORD

Name: Two secrets, and, A man of his word
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Author: Hesba Stretton

HESBA STRETTON

AUTHOR OF "JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER," "ALONE IN LONDON,"

"NO PLACE LIKE HOME," "THE CHRISTMAS CHILD," ETC.

London

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

4, BOUVERIE STREET AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

BUTLER & TANNER

THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS

FROME, AND LONDON.

CONTENTS

TWO SECRETS

A MAN OF HIS WORD

CHAP. I. HIS ONLY CHILD

" II. "CAST OUT"

" III. HIS GRANDSON

" IV. HIS OWN WAY

" V. A CRITICAL MOMENT

" VI. A TRUE MAN

TWO SECRETS

AND

A MAN OF HIS WORD

TWO SECRETS

ABOUT a stone's throw from the last house in the small country town of Armitage stood a cottage which had scarcely changed in aspect since it had been built two hundred years ago. The gambrel roof was high-pitched and closely thatched, with deep eaves, under which the swallows built their nests; the little elbow in the slope of the gable gave it a quaint look, as if the cottage had drawn a hood over its head. Along the top of the roof grew a row of purple flags, which contrasted well with the brown thatch and golden lichens. Casements, with small diamond windows, glistened in the light. A garden full of old-fashioned flowers ran down from the road to the little porch, which sheltered the door from rough weather, and made a pleasant and shady seat in the summer. It was certainly the most picturesque dwelling in the neighbourhood.

"What is the name of your cottage?" asked an artist, who had just finished a sketch of it.

"Oh! It hasn't any name, sir," answered Joanna Terry—"it's nothing; only our home."

She had been born there, and had not been away from it for a whole week at a time for fifty-five years. She hardly knew any other house. The ground floor of the cottage contained a large, old-fashioned living-room, with two very small ones opening out of it, one of which was a kind of scullery, and the other the bedroom in which she had been born, and where she had slept all her life. Under the gable of the thatched roof there was a large attic covering the whole area of the cottage, with sloping ceiling and two windows, one at each end, looking east and west. Joanna's mind could not grasp the idea of any improvement in the arrangement of her little homestead.

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