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Newton Forster

CHAPTER III
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He soon played with the infant, and submitted to his housekeeper with all the docility of a well-trained married man.
The Newfoundland dog, who, although (like some of his betters) he did not change his name _for_ a fortune, did, in all probability, change it _with_ his fortune, soon answered to the deserved epithet of "Faithful," and slept at the foot of the crib of his little mistress, who also was to be rechristened.

"She is a treasure, which has been thrown up by the ocean," said Forster, kissing the lovely infant.

"Let her name be _Amber_." But we must leave her to bud forth in her innocence and purity, while we direct the attention of the reader to other scenes, which are contemporary with those we have described..


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