The Autobiography of a Woman Alone (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Y father died when I was five years old the sister, whom I shall call Alison, was two.

Mother, always in poor health; was left with very little means. In the adjoining Village lived Dr. And Mrs. Coles, a childless Couple, who were first cousins as well as man and Wife. Before her marriage, my mother had taught school' in that Village, and boarded in their home. Hearing now of her bereavement, they came to see her. They saw her 'children, too, and Alison's beauty and winsomeness made Conquest at first sight. After that, Mrs. Coles Visited us often, to ease her hunger for the child. But the hunger was not eased that way. It only grew the more.

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