AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. NEW NOVEL KATHERINE BY SAUNDERS, AUTHOR OF GIDEON'S ROCK' AND 'THE HAUNTED Crust,' THE HIGH MILLS. Three Vols. Crown 8vo. HENRY S. KING & CO. A ROMANCE BY JESSIE FOTHERGILL " Hope nothing, if I thus may speak Farewell all wishes, all debate, All prayer for this cause, or for that! -WORDSWORTH IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. HENRY S. KING & CO., LONDON 1875 251. b. 850. HEALEY: A ROMANCE. PROEM. 'Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.'-ECCLESIASTES. COME people live who know misery only by comparison with their hap piness; so utterly have they lived in light, that they cannot conceive shade, pure and simple. They have never found their path suddenly swerve aside from the pleasant south, to go on under the bleak grey easterly rocks, or along a sunless northern shore. They have walked in warmth and light all their lives; and if here and there, "few and far between," transient clouds have thinly and feebly veiled their sun, they have no doubt VOL. I. A |