ILLUSTRATIONS

["HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN CONCOCTING THIS, MOTHER?" Frontispiece]

[THE CONVERSATION DROPPED, JUST AS THE VOICE OF THE ORATOR ROSE TO HIS PERORATION]

[AS SHE SAW MARCIA HER FACE LIT UP]

[THIS MORNING HE FOUND HER ALL GIRLISH GENTLENESS AND APPEAL]

["I DO WISH I COULD HELP YOU"]

[MARCIA WAS SINGING, IN A LOW VOICE AS SHE CAME]

[HE SAT STILL, STUDYING HIS MOTHER'S STRONG, LINED FACE]

[NOW SUDDENLY—HERE WAS A FRIEND—ON WHOM TO LEAN]

Book I

LADY CORYSTON

[Greek: turannon einai moria kai tonthelein.]

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