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EFFIE OGILVIE:
THE STORY OF A YOUNG LIFE.
BY
MRS. OLIPHANT,
AUTHOR OF “CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD,” ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
GLASGOW:
JAMES MACLEHOSE & SONS,
Publishers to the University.
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO.
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EFFIE OGILVIE:
THE STORY OF A YOUNG LIFE.
CHAPTER I.
The family consisted of Effie’s father, her stepmother, her brother Ericwho was in the army, and a little personage, the most important of all,the only child of the second Mrs. Ogilvie, the pet and plaything of thehouse. You may think it would have been more respectful and becoming toreverse this description, and present Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvie first to thenotice of the reader, which we shall now proceed to do. The only excusewe can offer for the irregularity of the beginning consists in the factthat{6} it is the nature of their proceedings in respect to the youngpeople, and particularly to Mr. Ogilvie’s daughter Effie, which inducesus to disturb the decorous veil which hangs over the doors of everyrespectable family, in the case of these worthy persons.
In their own lives, had we time and space to recount all that befellthem, there would, no doubt, be many interesting particulars, as in thelives of most other people: but when a country gentleman has attainedthe age of fifty or a little more, with enough of money for hisnecessities, and no more ambition than can be satisfied by th