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A PRODIGAL SON.

BY

DUTTON COOK,

AUTHOR OF

"PAUL FOSTER'S DAUGHTER."

"A lytel misgoyng in the gynning causeth mykel errour in the end."

-CHAUCER'S "TESTAMENT OF LOVE.'

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1863.

The right of Translation is reserved.

250. 1.57.

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A PRODIGAL SON.

CHAPTER I.

GOOD ACCOMMODATION FOR MAN AND BEAST.

WOULD he live through the

night?

Would he die before his eldest son arrived? Could it be that the parent and the child, separated since so many years, were not to meet again on this side of the grave? How many times had the sun gone down upon their wrath, and risen again to find it yet turbulent and restless, and surging like a sea that would not be stayed! And now, would not even

VOL. I.

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