CONTENTS.

A PHYSICIAN FOR THE SOUL.

CHAPTER I. "ONLY A GIRL."

CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF THE UGLY DUCKLING.

CHAPTER III. ATONEMENT.

CHAPTER IV. THE SAD SURVIVORS.

CHAPTER V. UNDECEIVED.

CHAPTER VI. SOUL-MURDER.

CHAPTER VII. DEPARTURE.

PART II.

CHAPTER I. "ONLY A WOMAN."

CHAPTER II. THE SWAN.

CHAPTER III. THE VILLAGE SCHOOL.

CHAPTER IV. THE GUARDIAN.

CHAPTER V. FRUITLESS PRETENSIONS.

CHAPTER VI. EMANCIPATION OF THE FLESH.

CHAPTER VII. EMANCIPATION OF THE SPIRIT.

CHAPTER VIII. "WHEN WOMEN HOLD THE REINS."

CHAPTER IX. VOX POPULI, VOX DEI.

CHAPTER X. NOWHERE AT HOME.

CHAPTER XI. INHARMONIOUS CONTRASTS.

PART III.

CHAPTER I. THE STRENGTH OF WEAKNESS.

CHAPTER II. THE WEAKNESS OF STRENGTH.

CHAPTER III. SILVER-ARMED KATHCHEN.

CHAPTER IV. BATTLE.

CHAPTER V. SCIENCE AND FAITH.

CHAPTER VI. SENTENCED.

CHAPTER VII. THE ORPHAN.

CHAPTER VIII. BLOSSOMS ON THE BORDER OF THE GRAVE.

CHAPTER IX. IT IS MORNING AGAIN.

CHAPTER X. RETURN.

CHAPTER XI. "GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD."

CHAPTER XII. THE THIRD POWER.

A YEAR LATER.

Transcriber's Note:

1. Page scan source:
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2. This was published also in England under the title "Ernestine: A Novel", translated by S. Baring Gould.

BY

MRS. A. L. WISTER.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1871.

Entered, according to act of Congress, In the year 1870, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.