Front matter
Reading edition
Nan drew Tessa’s cheek down to her lips. (Page 329)
Tessa Wadsworth’s
Discipline
A Story of the Development of a Young Girl’s Life
By Jennie M. Drinkwater
Author of “Growing Up,” “Bek’s First Corner,”
“Miss Prudence,” etc., etc.
“The people that stood below
She knew but little about;
And this story’s a moral, I know,
If you’ll try to find it out.”
A. L. Burt Company, Publishers
New York
Copyright 1879,
By Robert Carter & Brothers.
Dedication.
TO
MY FRIEND
Mary V. Childs.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
1.Hearts that Seemed to Differ9
2.The Silent Side20
3.The Last Night of the Old Year31
4.Somebody New55
5.Hearts that were Waiting65
6.Another Opportunity81
7.The Long Day90
8.A Note out of Tune101
9.The New Morning140
10.Forgetting the Bread156
11.On the Highway162
12.Good Enough to be True178
13.The Heart of Love188
14.Wheat, not Bread211
15.September217
16.A Tangle244
17.The Night Before258
18.Moods280
19.The Old Story293
20.Several Things305
21.Through330
22.Several Other Things338
23.What She Meant362
24.Shut in367
25.Blue Myrtle377
26.Another May390
27.Sunset397
28.Hearts Alike405