year of the eighteenth century. Thus closed the maiden life and homeless
loneliness of the disinherited daughter.

She had been ruthlessly turned out of a stately mansion which she loved as
her birthplace and childhood home, disinherited from her rightful heirship
to several thousands, and disowned by her family, whose well-being she had
faithfully labored to promote, and all for no fault of hers, but wholly
for a matter of conscience and principle. But in less than a year she was
settled in life in a home of which she was mistress, with a worthy husband,
of church membership and affinities like her own, and in the free enjoyment
of church privileges and holy fellowships, for which her persecuted soul
had "panted as the hart panteth for the water brooks."




PART II.


THE GREAT WORK OF LIFE.

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CHAPTER I.


ELIZABETH AS MISTRESS OF THE "COTTAGE CHAPEL."