First Page of Text in Volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint

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THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD.
CHAPTER I.

Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
“ There are no birds in last year’s nest.”
Longfellow.

“ Mamma, what was that I heard papa saying to you this morning about his lawsuit ?”

“ I cannot tell you just now, Ellen : pick up that shawl, and spread it over me.”

“ Mamma!—are you cold in this warm room ?”

“ A little,—there, that will do. Now, my daugh-ter, let me be quiet awhile—do not disturb me.” There was no one else in the room. Driven thus to her own resources, Ellen betook herself to the window, and sought amusement there. The prospect without gave little promise of it. Rain was falling, and made the street and everything in it look dull and gloomy. The foot-passengers plashed through the water, and the horses and carriages plashed the mud; gaiety had forsaken the side-walks, and equipages were few, and the people that were out were plainly there only because they could not help it. But yet Ellen, having seriously set herself to study everything that passed, presently became engaged in her occupation; and her thoughts tra-

VOL. I.

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Sampson Low, “First Page of Text in Volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint,” Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, accessed March 28, 2024, https://widewideworlddigitaledition.siue.edu/items/show/2658.

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This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. It features a decorative rule under The Wide, Wide World. An epigraph is under the decorative rule with a portion of Longfellow's poem "It Is Not Always May."

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Date

1852-04-08

Source

Wetherell, Elizabeth [Susan Warner]. The Wide, Wide World, Or, The Early History Of Ellen Montgomery. Reprint, 2 vols. London: Sampson Low, 1852.

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Sampson Low

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The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition
Low

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169 Fleet Street, London, UK

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56CIA_27