The Torn Bible

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The Torn Bible

Or Hubert's Best Friend

CHAPTER I.

HUBERT'S DEPARTURE FROM HOME.

May thy goodness

Share with thy birthright! * * * *

* * * What heaven more will

That these may furnish and my prayers pluck down,

Fall on thy head! Farewell.—Shakespeare.

The rural and picturesque village of Hulney, in the north of England, is a charming place; it is almost surrounded with well-wooded hills, and the little rivulets, which ever murmur down their sides, run into the limpid stream along the banks of which most of the cottages are built.

At the north end of the village, on the slope of a hill, is the church, so thickly covered with ivy that the only portions of the stonework visible are part of the ancient tower and the chancel window.

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