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THE

SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER,

WIFE, AND WIDOW.

BY

THE REV. RICHARD COBBOLD,

RECTOR OF WORTHAM, AND RURAL DEAN.

AUTHOR OF

THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1846.

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MARY ANNE WELLINGTON.

CHAPTER I.

OLD ASSOCIATIONS.

OLD associations are not easily forgotten. Man is a reflecting creature, ever measuring the present by the past, and thinking of what he was in years gone by. He who reaches days of mature wisdom, and looks even at the handwriting of his childhood, his first holiday letter to a dear mother, perhaps, is astonished to see the difference of character in the writing. Is his the hand that wrote that formal announcement of the happy period of Christmas, when the terror

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