MARGARET STOURTON; OR, A YEAR OF GOVERNESS LIFE. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. 1863. 250. m. 140. MARGARET STOURTON; OR, A Year of Governess Life. CHAPTER I. "Through waves and clouds and storms Wait thou His time; thy darkest night APTAIN STOURTON had seen many Africa, and twice for a long period in the West Indies, whence he had returned so seriously out of health, that he decided to retire on half-pay, and settle in the neighbourhood of a town where he might secure the help of masters and schools in the education of his children. A small accession of fortune, to which he had become entitled by the successful issue of a longpending lawsuit, enabled him to take a good, comfortable house called Witham Grange, to which a B |