The mother's recompense

by Edith Wharton

FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING

THE MOTHER’S
RECOMPENSE

BY
EDITH WHARTON
Author of
“Old New York,” “The Age of Innocence,”
“The Glimpses of the Moon,” etc.

Desolation is a delicate thing.
Shelley.

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Copyright, 1924, 1925 by The Pictorial Review Company
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My excuses are due to the decorous shade of Grace Aguilar, loved of our grandmothers, for deliberately appropriating, and applying to uses so different, the title of one of the most admired of her tales.

E. W.