Turns of Fortune

Turns of Fortune

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Title: Turns of Fortune And Other Tales
Author: Mrs. S. C. Hall
Release Date: May 31, 2005 [EBook #15961]
Language: English
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FRANCIS & CO.'S
LITTLE LIBRARY:
FOR YOUNG PERSONS OF VARIOUS AGES.
* * * * *
TURNS OF FORTUNE:
BY MRS. S.C. HALL.

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MRS. S.C. HALL.--TURNS OF FORTUNE; ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS, &C.
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TURNS OF FORTUNE;
AND OTHER TALES.
BY MRS. S.C. HALL.

NEW-YORK. C.S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.
BOSTON: J.H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON-STREET.
1851.

CONTENTS
TURNS OF FORTUNE 9
"ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS" 63
"THERE IS NO HURRY" 143

TURNS OF FORTUNE

CHAPTER I.
"Hush, Sarah!" exclaimed old Jacob Bond, as he sat up in his bed, while the wind clattered and whistled through the shivering window frames. "Hush! Is that Brindle's bark?"
"No, father; it is one of the farm dogs near the village. Lie down, dearest father; it is a cold night, and you are trembling."
"I don't know why I should feel cold, Sarah," he replied, pointing his shadowy fingers towards the grate, where an abundant fire blazed; "I am sure you have put down as much wood as would roast an ox."
"It is so very cold, father."
"Still, we must not be wasteful, Sarah," he answered; "wilful waste makes woful want." Sarah Bond covered the old man carefully over, while he laid himself stiffly down upon his pallet, re-muttering his favourite proverb over and over again.
She then drew the curtains more closely, and seated herself in an old-fashioned chair beside a little table in front of the fire.
The room had