THE

PEARL OF PEARL RIVER.

BY

EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.

AUTHOR OF "DESERTED WIFE," "LOST HE'RESS," "CURSE OF CLIFTON,"
"DISCARDED DAUGHTER," "MISSING BRIDE,” “WIFE'S VICTORY."

"How changed since last her speaking eye
Glanced gladness round the glittering room,
Where high-born men were proud to wait-
Where beauty watched to imitate

Her gentle voice and lovely mien-
And gather from her air and gait
The graces of its queen!"-BYRON.

Philadelphia:

T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS,

306 CHESTNUT STREET.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

SHELDON FUND

JULY 10, 1940

PREFACE.

THE leading incidents of the following story were suggested by circumstances in the life of a near relative, long since, we trust, in Heaven. I have used the novelist's privilege in giving a happier termination to the fiction than is warranted by the facts.

E. D. E. N. S.

PROSPECT COTtage,

February 16th, 1856.