Chapter III: 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