[ILLUSTRATIONS.]

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"Rose à Charlitte stood confronting the newcomer"[Frontispiece]
"They were friends"[60]
"'Agapit,' she murmured, 'can we not tell him?'"[229]
"'Mademoiselle, I salute your return'"[311]
"'Either that man or I must leave this house'"[409]
"Throwing her arm around the neck of her recovered child"[513]

[BOOK I.]

ROSE À CHARLITTE