FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1914
1897, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Were Nature just to Man from his first hour, he need not ask for Mercy; then 'tis for us—the toys of Nature—to be both just and merciful, for so only can the wrongs she does be undone.