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[Illustration: Cover]




Olive Leaves




[Illustration: The Indian Chief.--_P._ 229.]




    OLIVE LEAVES.

    OR,

    SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.

    BY

    MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.

    GALL & INGLIS.

    London:
    25 PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

    Edinburgh:
    20 BERNARD TERRACE.




PREFACE.


An Olive Leaf was the first gift of the Earth after the Flood, to the
sole survivors of a buried race. It was borne by the Dove, spreading a
timid wing over the surging waters, so lately without a shore.

The plant thus honoured, as the love