The Love-Story of
Aliette Brunton
By Gilbert Frankau
F. D. GOODCHILD
TORONTO
1922
Copyright, 1922, by
The Century Co.
Printed in U. S. A.
TO MY WIFE AND LOYAL ASSOCIATE
AIMÉE DE BURGH FRANKAU
IN ALL LOVE AND A GREAT REVERENCE
THIS STORY OF A WOMAN'S COURAGE
But woman's gamble (there's only one;
And it takes some pluck to play,
When the rules are broke ere the game's begun;
When, lose or win, you must pay!)
Is a double wager on human kind,
A limitless risk--and she goes it blind.
For she stakes, at love, on a single throw,
Pride, Honor, Scruples, and Fears,
And dreams no lover can hope to know,
And the gold of the after-years.
(And all for a man; and there's no man lives
Who is worth the odds that a woman gives.)
--From "The Judgment of Valhalla."
THE LOVE-STORY OF
ALIETTE BRUNTON
The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton