Produced by David Edwards, Jane Hyland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND A Story of the Coast of Maine BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1896 Copyright, 1862 and 1890, BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Copyright, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. _All rights reserved._ _The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A._ Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii CHAP. PAGE I. NAOMI 1 II. MARA 5 III. THE BAPTISM AND THE BURIAL 9 IV. AUNT ROXY AND AUNT RUEY 15 V. THE KITTRIDGES 25 VI. GRANDPARENTS 36 VII. FROM THE SEA 47 VIII. THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN 58 IX. MOSES 74 X. THE MINISTER 85 XI. LITTLE ADVENTURERS 99 XII. SEA TALES 110 XIII. BOY AND GIRL 120 XIV. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND 132 XV. THE HOME COMING 143 XVI. THE NATURAL AND THE SPIRITUAL 154 XVII. LESSONS 165 XVIII. SALLY 175 XIX. EIGHTEEN 179 XX. REBELLION 186 XXI. THE TEMPTER 198 XXII. A FRIEND IN NEED 208 XXIII. THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY 218 XXIV. DESIRES AND DREAMS 229 XXV. MISS EMILY 235 XXVI. DOLORES 245 XXVII. HIDDEN THINGS 258 XXVIII. A COQUETTE 270 XXIX. NIGHT TALKS 279 XXX. THE LAUNCH OF THE ARIEL 290 XXXI. GREEK MEETS GREEK 303 XXXII. THE BETROTHAL 315 XXXIII. AT A QUILTING 323 XXXIV. FRIENDS 329 XXXV. THE TOOTHACRE COTTAGE 335 XXXVI. THE SHADOW OF DEATH 339 XXXVII. THE VICTORY 351 XXXVIII. OPEN VISION 358 XXXIX. THE LAND OF BEULAH 368