Copyright, 1893
by
Joseph Knight Company
ILLVSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| “You Painted This, M. René Claude?” | [ Frontispiece.] |
| “A Young Girl had Found and Rescued Me” | [ 7] |
| “In a very Narrow Street” | [ 13] |
| “He was a Painter” | [ 22] |
| “One Night ... Lili Came to my Side by the Open Lattice” | [ 28] |
| “She Fell on her Knees before it” | [ 39] |
| Tailpiece, Part I. | [ 42] |
| Headpiece, Part II. | [ 43] |
| Tailpiece, Part II. | [ 75] |
A PROVENCE ROSE.
PART FIRST.
I was a Provence rose.
A little slender rose, with leaves of shining green and blossoms of purest white,—a little fragile thing, but fair, they said, growing in the casement in a chamber in a street.