The Daughter Pays
The Daughter Pays
By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers —— New York
Published by Arrangements with George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1915, 1916, By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
TO ALICE PERRIN PRE-EMINENT IN SYMPATHY FOR THE WORK OF HER SISTER WRITER WITH AFFECTIONATE ADMIRATION
Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître! Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit être. Inscription upon a statue of Love, in the Louvre. Freely rendered— Whoe'er thou art, thy lord is he. He is, or was, or he must be.
CONTENTS
THE DAUGHTER PAYS
Yes, I have felt like some deserted world That God hath done with, and had cast aside Untilled, no use, no pleasure, not desired ... Could such a world have hope that, some blest day, God would remember her, and fashion her Anew? —Jean Ingelow.
The full sunshine of late June, tempered by the medium of London atmosphere, illumined the long extent of Gallery Number Sixteen at Hertford House.
Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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CHAPTER I
THE MAN IN THE GALLERY
CHAPTER II
FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER III
VIRGINIA AT HOME
CHAPTER IV
THE TWO VIRGINIAS
CHAPTER V
THE OLD LOVE
CHAPTER VI
GAUNT'S TERMS
CHAPTER VII
VIRGINIA DECIDES
CHAPTER VIII
INTO THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER IX
IN THE TRAP
CHAPTER X
ANDROMEDA
CHAPTER XI
A FIRST EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER XII
THE BEGINNING OF DEFEAT
CHAPTER XIII
THE TREATMENT BREAKS DOWN
CHAPTER XIV
INSTANTANEOUS CONVERSION
CHAPTER XV
NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE
CHAPTER XVI
RENOUNCEMENT
CHAPTER XVII
WHAT COMES NEXT?
CHAPTER XVIII
THE FINAL TEST
CHAPTER XIX
ABSENCE
CHAPTER XX
A CASE FOR INTERPOSITION?
CHAPTER XXI
THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER
CHAPTER XXII
THE ROMAN VILLA
CHAPTER XXIII
TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XXIV
ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXV
THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXVI
THE DIFFICULT PATH
CHAPTER XXVII
LUNCH AT PERLEY HATCH
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE WAY BACK
CHAPTER XXIX
THE MASTERY
CHAPTER XXX
THE ESCAPE