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Adam Johnstone's Son, by F. Marion Crawford
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Title: Adam Johnstone's Son
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: August 29, 2007 [eBook #22455]
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The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford
ADAM JOHNSTONE'S SON
by
F. MARION CRAWFORD
With Frontispiece
[Illustration: "I SOMETIMES THINK THAT ONE'S PAST LIFE IS WRITTEN IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE," SAID MRS. BOWRING, SHUTTING THE BOOK SHE HELD.]
P. F. Collier & Son New York
Copyright 1895, 1896, 1897 by F. Marion Crawford All Rights Reserved
CHAPTER I
"I sometimes think that one's past life is written in a foreign language," said Mrs. Bowring, shutting the book she held, but k