GENTLE GERTRUDE, A Tale for Youth. BY MARY ANN KELTY, In your patience, possess ye your souls" Luke xxi. 19. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL JONES, 86, KINGSLAND ROAD. 1843. PREFACE. AFTER Some hesitation, I am induced to adopt a mode of narrative as that whereby alone the attention of the young can be engaged, or their hearts interested; and the heart it is of the utmost importance for the instructor to secure on his side; nothing being more certain, than that we never really improve in our moral state but by the operation of those influences which engage the affections on the side of virtue. I have therefore endeavoured, in this little work, to appeal to the feelings, and especially |