Produced by ellinora, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _Autobiography of a Child_ _By HANNAH LYNCH_ [Illustration: Decoration] _New York_ _Dodd, Mead & Company_ _1899_ _Copyright, 1898_, By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY Contents CHAP. PAGE I. LOOKING BACKWARD 1 II. MARY JANE 7 III. MY BROTHER STEVIE 17 IV. THE LAST DAYS OF HAPPINESS 33 V. MARTYRDOM 43 VI. GRANDFATHER CAMERON 49 VII. PROFILES OF CHILDHOOD 60 VIII. REVOLT 79 IX. MY FRIEND MARY ANN 89 X. THE GREAT NEWS 98 XI. PREPARING TO FACE THE WORLD 107 XII. AN EXILE FROM ERIN 113 XIII. AT LYSTERBY 120 XIV. THE WHITE LADY OF LYSTERBY 129 XV. AN EXILE IN REVOLT 136 XVI. MY FIRST CONFESSION 143 XVII. THE CHRISTMAS HAMPERS 154 XVIII. MR. PARKER THE DANCING-MASTER 160 XIX. EPISCOPAL PROTECTION 170 XX. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 182 XXI. OLD ACQUAINTANCE 188 XXII. A PRINCESS OF LEGEND 201 XXIII. MY FIRST TASTE OF FREEDOM 207 XXIV. MY ELDEST SISTER 212 XXV. OUR BALL 219 XXVI. THE SHADOWS 230 XXVII. A DISMAL END OF HOLIDAYS 238 XXVIII. MY FIRST COMMUNION 246 XXIX. THE LAST OF LYSTERBY AND CHILDHOOD 253 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD Chapter I. LOOKING BACKWARD.