title: Picking Up The Pieces: A Guide to Recovery from Betrayal and a Broken Heart
author: Dinah Temple
description: "Readers come away with a more positive outlook on life, fueled to rebuild their self-esteem and start again with confidence and hope. They learn how to survive the tragic loss of love, journey through the tunnel of pain and come out on the other side triumphant, strong, still sane, secure and ready to love again. The need to rebuild a new life is another opportunity to get it right. There is life after loss and readers will emerge from the darkness stronger, wiser, and better able to handle the challenges to be faced in the search for unconditional love."
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  # Christian's Mistake
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter 1.
  
  
  Chapter 2
  
  
  Chapter 3.
  
  
  Chapter 4.
  
  
  Chapter 5.
  
  
  Chapter 6
  
  
  Chapter 7.
  
  
  Chapter 8.
  
  
  Chapter 9.
  
  
  Chapter 10.
  
  
  Chapter 11.
  
  
  Chapter 12.
  
  
  Chapter 13.
  
  
  Chapter 14.
  
  
  Chapter 15.
  
  
  Chapter 16.
  
  
  
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Robin Eugene Escovado
  
  
  
  
  
  CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE
  
  
  BY
  
  
  DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK
  
  
  Author of _John Halifax, Gentleman_ , &c., &c., &c. New York
  
  
  Harper &Brothers, Publishers Franklin Square.
  
  
  
  
  
  Inscribed affectionately to John and Lucy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter 1.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  _“So I will do my best a gude wife to be,
  
  
    
  For Auld Robin Grey is vera kind to me.”_
  
  
    
  “I think this will do, my dear; just listen;” and in a mysterious
  
  
  half whisper, good Mrs. Ferguson, wife of James Ferguson, the
  
  
  well-to-do silversmith and jeweler, of High Street, Avonsbridge, read
  
  