FROM DAWN TO DAYLIGHT; OR, The Simple Story of a Western Home.
BY A MINISTER'S WIFE.NEW YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET. 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by DERBY & JACKSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York W. H. TINSON, Stereotyper Geo. RUSSELL & Co., Printers.
PREFACE.
SOME years since, I prepared the following sketch of the life of a dear friend, with whose history I had been familiar. At the time, my only object was to shorten some of the lonely hours of a tedious convalescence, and to gratify and amuse my children. Nothing could have been further from my thoughts, than trusting myself to the tender mercies of public opinion. But months after, a clergyman's wife, visiting in the family, chanced to read the manuscript, and felt that, if published, it might do good by leading, laymen to perceive how easily, by kindness, considerateness and prompt payment, they could strengthen their Pastor's hands, or, on the contrary, paralyze all his efforts and energy, by negligence, thoughtlessness and selfishness.
"On that hint I spake." The main story, or rather narrative, is literally true. Names and dates have been changed for obvious reasons, and in some few instances, I page: iv-v (Table of Contents) [View Page iv-v (Table of Contents) ] have resorted to fiction, by giving that which a people should do, instead of what they did or did not do. Therefore, should these pages meet their eyes and a "still small voice" point them to the original, of some parts of this picture, that same voice will acquit both their old friends, and also the narrator, of any disposition to exaggerate, "or set down aught in malice."
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. MARY AND HER MOTHER, 9
- CHAPTER II. HILL FARM, 17
- CHAPTER III. LEAVING HOME, 32
- CHAPTER IV. THE BRIDAL TRIP, 43
- CHAPTER V. PREPARING A HOME, 56
- CHAPTER VI. AT HOME, 84
- CHAPTER VII. MRS. REEDS' HISTORY, 99
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- CHAPTER VIII. A WELCOME GUEST, 118
- CHAPTER IX. NORTON, 134
- CHAPTER X. SICKNESS, 153
- CHAPTER XI. ADVICE GIVING, 163
- CHAPTER XII. A CHAPTER ON HELP, 184
- CHAPTER XIII. THE DONATION PARTY, 202
- CHAPTER XIV. A WELCOME VISIT AND A SAD PARTING, 230
- CHAPTER XV. A JOURNEY, 245
- CHAPTER XVI. THE VISIT AND RETURN, 268
- CHAPTER XVII. THE TRUE SPHERE OF WOMAN, 287
- CHAPTER XVIII. DEATH OF LITTLE HARRY, 301
- CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUSION, 817
