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100	1		_aLeslie, Madeline, _d1815-1893
245	1	4	_aThe breach of trust
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aAttributed to Madeline Leslie.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-06-22
520			_aThe Breach of Trust; or, The Professor and Possessor of Piety by Madeline Leslie is a moral domestic novel written in the late 19th century. It contrasts hollow “professions” of religion with genuine Christian character through the fortunes of siblings Helen and Frank Edmond, who fall under the guardianship of the vain, self-promoting merchant Monson P. Tracy. The story probes hypocrisy, charity, and fiduciary abuse, set against New England parsonage life and a tender, emerging attachment within the pastor’s family. The opening of the novel introduces Monson P. Tracy, a self-assured “professor of religion” who craves public praise yet withholds kindness, and contrasts him with his dying benefactor, the truly pious Roswell Edmond, who entrusts his children to Tracy’s care. A retrospective traces Tracy’s rise from destitute boy aided by Edmond to ambitious merchant, while the present follows Helen’s growing alarm at Tracy’s hypocrisy and his son Roswell’s calculated pursuit, alongside her compassion for a poor seamstress, Sarah Barrows, whom Tracy had wronged. With help from allies like the pastor Mr. Knowles and the merchant McKinstry, Helen raises funds to rescue Sarah, rebuffs Tracy’s interference in her visitors, and ultimately rejects Roswell’s proposal, after which she and Frank resettle near their country home. There they find calmer footing under the pastor’s wing, deepen ties with his son Frederic, take up study and charity among mill families, and the section closes on a dramatic rescue as Frederic saves Helen from a mad dog. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cBoston: D. Lothrop Company, 1869
653			_aPiety -- Juvenile fiction
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76354
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