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MRS. BALFAME
A Novel
BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1916, by
Gertrude Atherton


All rights reserved, including that of translation into
foreign languages

FOURTH PRINTING


And woman, yea, woman, shall be terrible in story;

The tales too, meseemeth, shall be other than of yore.

For a fear there is that cometh out of woman and a glory,

And the hard hating voices shall encompass her no more.

The Medea.


MRS. BALFAME