CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE

BY

DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Author of _John Halifax, Gentleman_,
&c., &c., &c.
New York Harper & Brothers,
Publishers Franklin Square.



Inscribed affectionately to
John and Lucy




Chapter 1.

_"So I will do my best a gude wife to be,
For Auld Robin Grey is vera kind to me."_


"I think this will do, my dear; just listen;" and in a mysterious half
whisper, good Mrs. Ferguson, wife of James Ferguson, the well-to-do
silversmith and jeweler, of High Street, Avonsbridge, read aloud from
the sheet of paper in her hand: