PART IV

HIS FOURTH WIFE

XIX. "'Lizabeth" 203 XX. "Giving in Marriage" 211 XXI. "I Shall Want My Em'ly" 224

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"The young man put the honeysuckle in his buttonhole" _Frontispiece_

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"Leaping ditches, tearing across ploughed fields, to the woods ahead" 5

"Miner rode slowly along on horseback, now and then making inquiries of wayfarers" 25

"The Village" 45

"He stopped when the mouth of an old war pistol was suddenly placed in front of his shoulder" 112

"'Ain't you never goin' to stop mopin', Ambrose Thompson? I'm sick of lookin' at you.'" 131

"'You kin manage me now all you've a mind to; I ain't worryin''" 198

"Thus it was that 'Lisabeth took up the business of caring for Uncle Ambrose Thompson" 214