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Mildred and Elsie.
BY
MARTHA FINLEY, (Martha Farquharson,)
AUTHOR OF THE "ELSIE BOOKS," "MILDRED KEITH," "MILDRED AT ROSELANDS," "SIGNING THE CONTRACT," ETC., ETC.
"Through suffering and sorrow thou hast pass'd, To show us what a woman true may be."— J. R. Lowell.
"A lovely being scarcely form'd or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded."— Byron.
NEW YORK:, DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1881, by Dodd, Mead & Company.
Mildred and Elsie.