Addie's Husband; or, Through clouds to sunshine
Lord Lytton 10
162 Eugene Aram. By Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton 20
163 Winifred Power. By Joyce Darrell 20
164 Leila; or, The Siege of Grenada.
By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton 10
165 The History of Henry Esmond.
By William Makepeace Thackeray 20
166 Moonshine and Marguerites. By
"The Duchess" 10
167 Heart and Science. By Wilkie
Collins 20
168 No Thoroughfare. By Charles
Dickens and Wilkie Collins 10
169 The Haunted Man. By Charles
Dickens 10
170 A Great Treason. By Mary
Hoppus 30
171 Fortune's Wheel, and Other
Stories. By "The Duchess" 10
172 "Golden Girls." By Alan Muir 20
173 The Foreigners. By Eleanor C.
Price 20
174 Under a Ban. By Mrs. Lodge 20
175 Love's Random Shot, and Other
Stories. By Wilkie Collins 10
176 An April Day. By Philippa P.
Jephson 10
177 Salem Chapel. By Mrs. Oliphant 20
178 More Leaves from the Journal
of a Life in the Highlands. By
Queen Victoria 10
179 Little Make-Believe. By B. L.
Farjeon 10
180 Round the Galley Fire. By W.
Clark Russell 10
181 The New Abelard. By Robert
Buchanan 10
182 The Millionaire. A Novel 20
183 Old Contrairy, and Other Stories.
By Florence Marryat 10
184 Thirlby Hall. By W. E. Norris 20
185 Dita. By Lady Margaret Majendie 10
186 The Canon's Ward. By James
Payn 20
187 The Midnight Sun. By Fredrika
Bremer 10
188 Idonea. By Anne Beale 20
189 Valerie's Fate. By Mrs. Alexander 5
190 Romance of a Black Veil. By
the author of "Dora Thorne" 10
191 Harry Lorrequer. By Charles
Lever 15
192 At the World's Mercy. By F.
Warden 10
193 The Rosary Folk. By G. Manville
Fenn 10
194 "So Near and Yet So Far!" By
Alison 10
195 "The Way of the World." By
David Christie Murray 15
196 Hidden Perils. By Mary Cecil
Hay 10
197 For Her Dear Sake. By Mary
Cecil Hay 20
198 A Husband's Story 10
199 The Fisher Village. By Anne
Beale 10
200 An Old Man's Love. By Anthony
Trollope 10
201 The Monastery. By Sir Walter
Scott 20
202 The Abbot. By Sir Walter Scott 20
203 John Bull and His Island. By
Max O'Rell 10
204 Vixen. By Miss M. E. Braddon 15
205 The Minister's Wife. By Mrs.
Oliphant 30
206 The Picture, and Jack of All
Trades. By Charles Reade 10
207 Pretty Miss Neville. By B. M.
Croker 15
208 The Ghost of Charlotte Cray,
and Other Stories. By Florence
Marryat 10
209 John Holdsworth, Chief Mate.
By W. Clark Russell 10
210 Readiana: Comments on Current
Events. By Chas. Reade 10
211 The Octoroon. By Miss M. E.
Braddon 10
212 Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon.
By Chas. Lever (Complete
in one volume) 30
213 A Terrible Temptation. Chas.
Reade 15
214 Put Yourself in His Place. By
Charles Reade 20
215 Not Like Other Girls. By Rosa
Nouchette Carey 15
216 Foul Play. By Charles Reade 15
217 The Man She Cared For. By
F. W. Robinson 15
218 Agnes Sorel. By G. P. R. James 15
219 Lady Clare; or, The Master of
the Forges. By Georges Ohnet 10
220 Which Loved Him Best? By
the author of "Dora Thorne" 10
221 Comin' Thro' the Rye. By
Helen B. Mathers 15
222 The Sun-Maid. By Miss Grant 15
223 A Sailor's Sweetheart. By W.
Clark Russell 15
224 The Arundel Motto. Mary Cecil
Hay 15
225 The Giant's Robe. By F. Anstey 15
226 Friendship. By "Ouida" 20
227 Nancy. By Rhoda Broughton 15
228 Princess Napraxine. By "Ouida" 20
229 Maid, Wife, or Widow? By
Mrs. Alexander 10
230 Dorothy Forster. By Walter
Besant 15
231 Griffith Gaunt. By Charles
Reade 15
232 Love and Money; or, A Perilous
Secret. By Charles Reade 10
233 "I Say No;" or, the Love-Letter
Answered. Wilkie Collins 15
234 Barbara; or, Splendid Misery.
Miss M. E. Braddon 15
235 "It is Never Too Late to
Mend." By Charles Reade 20
236 Which Shall It Be? Mrs. Alexander 20
237 Repented at Leisure. By the
author of "Dora Thorne" 15
238 Pascarel. By "Ouida" 20
239 Signa. By "Ouida" 20
240 Called Back. By Hugh Conway 10
241 The Baby's Grandmother. By
L. B. Walford 10
242 The Two Orphans. By D'Ennery 10
243 Tom Burke of "Ours." First
half. By Charles Lever 20
243 Tom Burke of "Ours." Second
half. By Charles Lever 20
244 A Great Mistake. By the author
of "His Wedded Wife" 20
245 Miss Tommy, and In a House-Boat.
By Miss Mulock 10
246 A Fatal Dower. By the author
of "His Wedded Wife" 10
247 The Armourer's Prentices. By
Charlotte M. Yonge 10
248 The House on the Marsh. F.
Warden 10
249 "Prince Charlie's Daughter."
By author of "Dora Thorne" 10
250 Sunshine and Roses; or, Diana's
Discipline. By the author
of "Dora Thorne" 10
251 The Daughter of the Stars, and
Other Tales. By Hugh Conway,
author of "Called Back" 10
252 A Sinless Secret. By "Rita" 10
253 The Amazon. By Carl Vosmaer 10
254 The Wife's Secret, and Fair but
False. By the author of
"Dora Thorne" 10
[CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE OF COVER.]
ADDIE'S HUSBAND;
OR,
THROUGH CLOUDS TO SUNSHINE.
By the author of "Love or Lands?"
NEW YORK:
GEORGE MUNRO, PUBLISHER,
17 TO 27 VANDEWATER STREET.
ADDIE'S HUSBAND.
CHAPTER I.
"'Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, policeman, plowboy, gentleman--'
Adelaide Lefroy, lift your lovely head, my dear; you're to marry a
gentleman."
Miss Adelaide, who is absorbed in the enjoyment of a ruddy ribstone
pippin, turns her blooming freckled face to the speaker, and answers
pleasantly, though a little indistinctly--
"I'm to marry a gentleman, brother Hal? Well, I guess I've no
particular objection! Whenever he comes, he will find me ready to
do him homage, and no mistake! Can't you tell me more about him? 'A
gentleman' is rather vague. Is he to be rich, poor, or something
between? Am I to share his gentility in a Belgravian mansion or a
suburban villa?"
"The oracle does not say. I can't tell you any more, Addie. I've come
nearer the point with the others, though. Pauline is to be a soldier's
bride, Goggles a policeman's!"
"Don't you believe him, Addie!" burst in Goggles, a pale
delicate-looking child of twelve, with large protruding eyes and a
painfully inquiring turn of mind. "He cheated horribly; he ran the
policeman in before the tailor the second time, and left out the
sailor."
"I didn't, miss--I did it quite fairly. You had four chances; you
got the tinker once and the policeman three times. You're to marry a
bobby--there's no hope for you!"
"I won't, I won't, I won't!" she retorts passionately, angry tears
welling into her big, foolish eyes. "I won't marry a policeman, Hal!
I'd rather die an old maid ten times over."
"First catch your policeman, my dear," chimes in Pauline, languidly
waving aside a swarm of gnats dancing round her beautiful dusky head.
"You'll not find many of that ilk sneaking round our larder, I can tell
you!"
"I don't care whether I do or not. I won't marry a--"
"That will do, Lottie; we have had quite enough of this nonsense,"
interposes Addie, suddenly and unexpectedly assuming the tones of a
reproving elder sister. "You came out here to study, and I don't think
either you or Pauline has read that French exercise once, though you
promised Aunt Jo you would have it off by heart for her this afternoon.
Give me the book; I'll hear you. Translate 'I am hungry; give me some
cheese.'"
"_Je suis faim; donnez-moi du--du--_"
"No; wrong to begin with. It is _J'ai faim_, 'I have hunger.'"
"'I have hunger!'" grumbles Lottie. "That just shows what a useless
humbugging language French is! Fancy any one but an idiot saying, 'I
have hunger,' instead of--"
"Don't talk so much. 'Have you my brother's penknife?'"
"_Avez-vous mon frère's plume-couteau?_"
Miss Lefroy tosses back the tattered Ahn in speechless disgust.
"Never mind, Goggles; I'll give you a sentence to translate," whispers
Hal teasingly. "Listen! _Esker le policeman est en amour_--eh? That's
better than anything in an old Ahn or Ollendorff, isn't it? _Esker le
poli_--"
"Hal, do leave your sister alone, and attend to your own task. I don't
believe you have got that wretched sum right yet, though you have been
at it all the morning."
"And such a toothsome sum too!" says Pauline, leaning forward and
reading aloud the problem inscribed on the top of the cracked greasy
slate in Aunt Jo's straggling old fashioned writing--
"'Uncle Dick gave little Jemmy five shillings as a Christmas-box.
He went to a pastry-cook's, and bought seven mince-pies at twopence
halfpenny each, a box of chocolate, nine oranges at one shilling and
sixpence per dozen; he gave tenpence to a poor boy, and had four-pence
left. What was the price of the chocolate?'"
"It's a rotten old sum--that's what it is!" says Hal trenchantly.
"What's the sense of annoying a fellow with mince-pies and things when