Beautiful but poor
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Hattie’s Letter
- Chapter III Miss Scrimp’s Disappointment
- Chapter IV The Foreman’s Discovery
- Chapter V Tea-Table Talk
- Chapter VI Joy to Toil-Worn Hearts
- Chapter VII Who Can She Be?
- Chapter VIII What Can This Mean?
- Chapter IX “Lizzie, I’ve Seen Her!”
- Chapter X Miss Scrimp’s Curiosity
- Chapter XI Detected
- Chapter XII Will She Keep Her Promises?
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV A Proposition
- Chapter XV Hattie’s Resolve
- Chapter XVI The Interview
- Chapter XVII Criticising the Sketches
- Chapter XVIII A Task Accomplished
- Chapter XIX Good Advice
- Chapter XX Jessie Albemarle
- Chapter XXI The Ride Home
- Chapter XXII Scene in the Yosemite
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV “It Is as I Feared.”
- Chapter XXV Aunt Louisa
- Chapter XXVI “I Am That Child’s Mother!”
- Chapter XXVII Reunited
- Chapter XXVIII “Oh! I Am so Unhappy!”
- Chapter XXIX “She Is Dying!”
- Chapter XXX “My Mother Is Dying!”
- Chapter XXXI Hattie’s Sex Defended
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII Safe in Port
- Chapter XXXIV How the News Was Received
- Chapter XXXV An Important Dispatch
- Chapter XXXVI
- Chapter XXXVII Captain Smith
- Chapter XXXVIII Found
- Chapter XXXIX Hattie Leaves the Bindery
- Chapter XL Thine Forever!
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