HEALEY: A ROMANCE

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HIS QUE E N.

BY ALICE FISHER.

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HEALEY: A ROMANCE.

CHAPTER I.

'Far off she seem'd to hear the dully sound
Of human footsteps fall.

As in strange lands a traveller walking slow,
In doubt and great perplexity,

A little before moon-rise, hears the low
Moan of an unknown sea;

And knows not if it be thunder, or a sound

Of stones thrown down, or one deep cry

Of great wild beasts; then thinketh, "I have found
A new land, but I die.”'

T is almost ludicrous to pause here

while I remark that by this time

not one soul in Hamerton, man, woman, or child, did not know what had happened; that Sara Holden was Sara Healey, the wife of the Hamerton scapegrace

VOL. III.

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