The Second Fiddle

TO
MARGUERITE and LILIAN
TWO SISTERS WHO, ALIKE IN JOY
AND SORROW, ARE A LIGHT
TO THEIR FRIENDS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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["Then have the kindness to inform me ... why Marian has consented to marry me" ]	Frontispiece
[A proclamation was read by a great person from a bedizened balcony ]	19
["I'm afraid I don't like big feelings much" ]	91
["Women like you can't marry logs of wood" ]	141
["This," Stella thought to herself, "is like a battle" ]	165
[Her voice was unfettered music ]	189
[She tugged and twisted again ]	265
[The most extraordinary figure we had ever seen ]	295
["Not very clever of you," he murmured, "not to guess why I wanted a taxi" ]	349