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at last in the quiet nook 127

CHAPTER IX.
EMILY'S TRIALS.
Lewie's education--Mr. Malcolm tutor at the Hemlocks--Frequent calls
at Brook Farm--Emily's sufferings--The disclosure--Strength for time
of trial 140

CHAPTER X.
THE TUTOR AND THE PUPIL.
Lewie's insubordination--Passion and tears--The mother's anxiety--Mr.
Malcolm's firmness--No dinner for Lewie--Sulking--Brought to terms
at last--The tutor dismissed 159

CHAPTER XI.

RUTH GLENN.
Leaving for boarding-school--Mrs. Arlington and her daughters--The
third story room--The new strange girl--Nocturnal disturbances--Ruth
Glenn's expostulations--Imminent danger--The physician
consulted--Morning walks--Sad partings 173

CHAPTER XII.
LEWIE AT SCHOOL.
The dictator in the play-ground--Strife and contention--The
tormentor--Lewie's mortification--The sore spot--The attack upon
Colton--The removal from school--Mrs. Elwyn's failing health--Agnes
summoned--A death bed--Changes proposed to Agnes--Her departure
for Wilston 196

CHAPTER XIII.
NEW SCENES FOR AGNES.
The two Miss Fairlands--The step-mother--Arrival at
Wilston--Unpromising pupils--Poor Tiney--Dreadful scene at the
tea-table--Tiney's suffering--The effect of music 212

CHAPTER XIV.
THE SCHOOL IN THE WEST WING.
A hard task--The children's toilettes--Bible teachings--Practical
applications--Sunday at Mr. Fairland's--The children's singing--The
father's tears--A visit to Brook Farm--A visit from Lewie 223

CHAPTER XV.
THE STRANGERS IN THE ROOKERY.
An arrival--The Rookery--Mrs. Danby and Bella--A sudden
accident--The rescue--The strangers--An old friend--A row on the
lake--Music on the water--Shrieking in the house--A new method of
laying spirits--Mortifying disclosures by Frank 250

CHAPTER XVI.
DEATH AND THE FUGITIVE.
Music on the lawn--The midnight interview--The horrid truth
disclosed--Lewie a fugitive from justice--Jealousy of Calista and
Evelina--Poor Tiney's death bed--The search--The arrest 269

CHAPTER XVII.
THE JAIL.
Return to Brook Farm--The visit to the jail--The involuntary and the
voluntary prisoner--A talk about the future--Mr. Malcolm's visits--The
lawyer--The evening before the trial 284

CHAPTER XVIII.
THE TRIAL.
The Court-room--Mr. W.--The testimony--Speeches--Mr. G.'s

agitation--Charge to the jury 298

CHAPTER XIX.
THE SEALED PAPER.
A night of fearful suspense--The
verdict--Insensibility--Delirium--Meeting between the brother and
sister--Lewie's illness--Longings for freedom--A journey to the
capital--Ruth Glenn again--The governor--A sister's pleadings--Her
reward 310

CHAPTER XX.
TWICE FREE.
Freedom for the captive--Removal to Brook Farm--Decline--Changes
of temper and heart--A final release--The quiet nook--Resignation
--Cheerfulness--The unexpected visitor 328

CHAPTER XXI.
THE WINDING UP.
Repairs at the Rookery--Calista and Evelina on the _qui vive_--Mr.
Harrington and his bride--Another Christmas gathering--Farewell, and
kind wishes 331

I.
Little Agnes.
"And she, not seven years old, A slighted child."--WORDSWORTH.

"What is it Lewie wants? Does he want sister's pretty book?"
"No!" roared the cross baby boy, pointing with his finger to the
side-board.
"Well, see here, Lewie! here is a pretty ball; shall we roll it? There!
now roll it back to sister."
"No-o-o!" still screamed Master Lewie, the little finger still stretched
out towards something on the side-board which he seemed much to
desire.
"Here is my lovely dolly, Lewie. If you will be very careful, I will let
you take her. See her beautiful eyes! Will Lewie make her open and
shut her eyes?"
"No-o-o-o!" again shouted the fretful child, and this time so loud as
effectually to arouse his youthful mamma, who was deep in an
arm-chair, and deeper still in the last fashionable novel.
"Agnes!" she exclaimed sharply, "cannot you let that child alone? I told
you to amuse him; and instead of doing so, you seem to delight in
teazing him and making him scream."
Again the little girl tried in various ways to amuse the wayward child.
He really was not well, and felt cross and irritable, and nothing that his
little sister could do to please him would succeed. With the utmost
patience and gentleness she labored to bring a smile to her little
brother's cheek, or at least so to win his attention as to keep him from
disturbing her mother. But the handkerchief rabbits, and the paper men
and women she could cut so beautifully, and which at times gave little
Lewie so much pleasure, were now all dashed impatiently aside. One
by one her little playthings were brought out, and placed before him,
but with no better success. Lewie had once seen the contents of a
beautiful work-box of his sister's, which stood in the centre of the
side-board: at this he pointed, and for this he screamed. Nothing else
would please him; at nothing else would he condescend to look.
"Oh, Lewie! darling Lewie! play with something else! Don't you know
Aunt Ellen gave sister that pretty work-box? and she said I must be so
careful of it, and Lewie would break all sister's pretty things."
Again Master Lewie had recourse to the strength of his lungs, which he
knew, by past experience, to be all-powerful in gaining whatever his
fancy might desire, and sent forth a roar so loud as once more to arouse
the attention of the novel-reading mamma; who, with a stamp of the

foot, and a threatening shake of the finger, gave the little girl to
understand