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Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Team











BROUGHT HOME.

BY

HESBA STRETTON.







CONTENTS.


    CHAPTER I.  UPTON RECTORY

   CHAPTER II.  ANN HOLLAND

  CHAPTER III.  WHAT WAS HER DUTY?

   CHAPTER IV.  A BABY'S GRAVE

    CHAPTER V.  TOWN'S TALK

   CHAPTER VI.  THE RECTOR'S RETURN

  CHAPTER VII.  WORSE THAN DEAD

 CHAPTER VIII.  HUSBAND AND WIFE

   CHAPTER IX.  SAD DAYS

    CHAPTER X.  A SIN AND A SHAME

   CHAPTER XI.  LOST

  CHAPTER XII.  A COLONIAL CURACY

 CHAPTER XIII.  SELF-SACRIFICE

  CHAPTER XIV.  FAREWELLS

   CHAPTER XV.  IN DESPAIR

  CHAPTER XVI.  A LONG VOYAGE

 CHAPTER XVII.  ALMOST SHIPWRECKED

CHAPTER XVIII.  SAVED








CHAPTER I.

UPTON RECTORY


So quiet is the small market town of Upton, that it is difficult to
believe in the stir and din of London, which is little more than an
hour's journey from it. It is the terminus of the single line of rails
branching off from the main line eight miles away, and along it three
trains only travel each way daily. The sleepy streets have old-fashioned
houses straggling along each side, with trees growing amongst them; and
here and there, down the roads leading into the the country, which are
half street, half lane, green plots of daisied grass are still to be
found, where there were once open fields that have left a little