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  [Illustration: THE ADOPTED CHILD.
  _It was now Anna's turn to support her father. page 139_]




  THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER,

  A TALE FOR
  YOUNG PERSONS.

  BY MISS SANDHAM,
  _Author of "The Twin Sisters," "William Selwyn," and many
  other Approved Works._

  "You took me up a tender flower."

  _SECOND EDITION._

  LONDON:
  PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS AND SON,
  ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.
  1822.




LONDON

PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS,
GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS.




PREFACE.


The following tale is intended to shew what people ought to be, rather
than what they are; as there are few, possessing Mrs. Meridith's
fortune, who have an inclination to dispose of it in the manner she is
represented to have done. Indeed, the characters here introduced are too
near perfection to be met with in real life, yet the Author hopes that
her young readers will receive instruction, as well as amusement, in
perusing it.

Some of the incidents may have been before introduced in works of the
same kind; though she is not aware of plagiarism, or borrowing from
other authors, and as she has endeavoured to pourtray those smaller
delineations of character which often escape a general observer, she
hopes many of the ideas will be found to be new