title: Harriet's Journal
author:  Michael Springthorpe 
description: Writer Michael Springthorpe ("Mayflower Gilbert and Sullivan", "Eppie and Beppie", The Bones at Red 22) was born in Australia and presently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Kate and many babies and it was he who, in a season not long ago, helped a tiny possum channel the story of her priceless and valiant life. "In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together, the leopard will lie down with the baby goat...." (Isaiah 11-6)
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  # The Man Thou Gavest
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Harriet T. Comstock
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Illustration: “Do you think I am the sort of girl who would sell
  
  
  herself for anything—even for the justice I might think was yours?”]
  
  
  THE MAN THOU GAVEST
  
  
  BY
  
  
  HARRIET T. COMSTOCK
  
  
  AUTHOR OF JOYCE OF THE NORTH WOODS, A SON OF THE HILLS, ETC.
  
  
  FRONTISPIECE BY E.F. WARD
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  
  _I dedicate this book of mine to the lovely spot where most of it
  
  
  was written_
  
  
  THE MACDOWELL COLONY