. The heir-at-law, and other tales [electronic resource] . possession of the legacy. All doubts were speedily set at rest. A carriagedrove slowly up the avenue one evening, just as itwas growing dusk, and Mr. Harford was informedthat a gentleman wished to speak with him. Hehastened out, and a pale, mutilated figure extendedits hand to him, exclaiming in a feeble voice, Ed-mund ! Do you not know me ? Captain Travers ! almost shouted Harford. Can it indeed be you? A piece of me, Edmund, replied the wounded■officer with an effort at a smile. I am come to askpermission, he added in a graver tone,
. The heir-at-law, and other tales [electronic resource] . possession of the legacy. All doubts were speedily set at rest. A carriagedrove slowly up the avenue one evening, just as itwas growing dusk, and Mr. Harford was informedthat a gentleman wished to speak with him. Hehastened out, and a pale, mutilated figure extendedits hand to him, exclaiming in a feeble voice, Ed-mund ! Do you not know me ? Captain Travers ! almost shouted Harford. Can it indeed be you? A piece of me, Edmund, replied the wounded■officer with an effort at a smile. I am come to askpermission, he added in a graver tone, to die shall not, I think, be refused ? He survived for several months, administered towith tenderest solicitude by Mrs. Harford and herhusband. The last tones that sounded in his earwere those of Edmund Harford, reading with chok-ing voice the prayers of the church for the dying;the last object his darkening eyes distinguished wasthe tearful countenance of the beloved of his youthand manhood; the last word his lips uttered was her:name—Mary!. London,Warwick House, Paternoster Row. PUBLISHED BY WARD, LOCK, & TYLER. FOR FAMILY READING AND REFERENCE. Now Ready, price One Guinea, cloth gilt, and gilt edges. In 2 vols., 25^.BEETONS GREAT BOOK OE POETRY. From Csedmon and King Alfreds Boethius to Browning and Tennyson. Containing nearly TwoThousand of the Best Pieces in the English Language. With Sketches of theHistory of the Poetry of our Country, and Biographical Notices of the a Collection of Poems never before gathered together within the limitsof a Single Volume. Four Hundred English Poets are represented in this Volume. A SeparateCollection of American Poems, tvith Biographies, is added to these. Tints, in onebook, a view of the Grozuth and Changes of the English Language, as seen in itsHighest Developments, is possible. Not less than a Thousand Voluines have beenexamined in order to form a selection worthy to receive respect and regard from allLover
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