Front matter
Reading edition
An Orkney Maid Christine Joan Profit and Loss Three Score and Ten The Measure of a Man The Winning of Lucia Playing with Fire All the Days of My Life
D. Appleton & Company Publishers New York
“Ian was utterly charmed with the picture she made–––” [Page 60]
AN ORKNEY MAID
BY AMELIA E. BARR
AUTHOR OF “CHRISTINE,” “JOAN,” “PROFIT AND LOSS,” ETC.
“The pleasant habit of existence, the sweet fable of life.”
ILLUSTRATED
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1918
Copyright, 1918, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
TO MY DEAR FRIEND DR. MARTIN BARR OF ELWYNN, PENNSYLVANIA, I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK. Amelia E. Barr. “Honor and truth formed your will, Your heart, fidelity.”
MOTTO
“You can glad your child, or grieve it, You can help it, or deceive it, When all is done, Beneath God’s sun, You can only love, and leave it.”