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MALBONE:
AN OLDPORT ROMANCE.

BY

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.

"What is Nature unless there is an eventful human life passing within her? Many joys and many sorrows are the lights and shadows in which she shows most beautiful." — THOREAU, MS. Diary.

BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1869.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,
in the clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW & CO.,
CAMBRIDGE.