Collins’ 7d. net Modern Fiction
(In Great Britain Only)
WITH FRONTISPIECE AND DESIGNED TITLE PAGE
EACH VOLUME HAS AN ATTRACTIVE COLOURED WRAPPER
| 1 | The Great Refusal | Maxwell Gray |
| 3 | The Brown Eyes of Mary | Madame Albanesi |
| 4 | The Golden Butterfly | Besant and Rice |
| 6 | A Weaver of Webs | John Oxenham |
| 7 | Saints in Society | Mrs. Baillie-Saunders |
| 8 | The Wreck of the Grosvenor | W. Clark Russell |
| 9 | Comin’ Thro’ the Rye | Helen Mathers |
| 10 | The Deemster | Hall Caine |
| 11 | The Happy Valley | B. M. Croker |
| 13 | New Arabian Nights | R. L. Stevenson |
| 15 | American Wives and English Husbands | Gertrude Atherton |
| 18 | The Tempestuous Petticoat | Robert Barr |
| 19 | A Ward of the Golden Gate | Bret Harte |
| 21 | Under the Greenwood Tree | Thomas Hardy |
| 23 | The Firm of Girdlestone | A. Conan Doyle |
| 25 | The School for Saints | John Oliver Hobbes |
| 26 | Ready-Money Mortiboy | Besant and Rice |
| 27 | Nature’s Comedian | W. E. Norris |
| 28 | The Luck of the Fairfaxes | Katherine Tynan |
| 29 | Comethup | Tom Gallon |
| 30 | A Sack of Shakings | Frank T. Bullen |
| 31 | Red Spider | S. Baring-Gould |
| 32 | Pretty Polly Pennington | Madame Albanesi |
| 33 | Genevra | C. Marriott |
| 35 | The Locum Tenens | Victor L. Whitechurch |
| 36 | A Princess of Thule | William Black |
| 37 | Daireen | F. Frankfort Moore |
| 39 | A Waif of the Plains | Bret Harte |
| 40 | Terence | B. M. Croker |
| 41 | The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton | William Black |
| 42 | Brendle | Marmaduke Pickthall |
| 43 | Eve | S. Baring-Gould |
| 44 | How to be Happy though Married | Rev. E. J. Hardy |
| 45 | Macleod of Dare | William Black |
| 46 | Loaves and Fishes | Bernard Capes |
| 47 | My Little Girl | Besant and Rice |
| 48 | The Light of Scarthey | Egerton Castle |
| 49 | The Amazing Duke | Sir Wm. Magnay, Bart. |
| 50 | Diana Harrington. | B. M. Croker |
| 51 | Sister Anne | Madame Albanesi |
| 52 | A Gentleman of London | Morice Gerard |
| 53 | An English Girl in Paris | Constance E. Maud |
| 54 | Despair’s Last Journey | D. C. Murray |
| 55 | Running Water | A. E. W. Mason |
| 56 | John Holdsworth—Chief Mate | W. Clark Russell |
| 57 | The Ivory Gate | Sir Walter Besant |
| 58 | The Tempting of Paul Chester | Alice and Claude Askew |
| 59 | A Royal Indiscretion | Richard Marsh |
| 60 | The Cattle-Baron’s Daughter | Harold Bindloss |
| 61 | A Breach of Promise | Lady Troubridge |
| 62 | Harum Scarum | Esme Stuart |
| 63 | The Journal of a Jealous Woman | Percy White |
| 64 | The Fowler | Beatrice Harraden |
| 65 | Count Bunker | J. Storer Clouston |
| 66 | Robert Orange | John Oliver Hobbes |
| 67 | The Parish Nurse | Mary E. Mann |
| 68 | Eve and the Law | Alice and Claude Askew |
| 69 | The Path of a Star | Mrs Everard Cotes |
| (Sara Jeannette Duncan) | ||
| 70 | The Shadow of a Crime | Hall Caine |
| 71 | George V., Our Sailor King | Robert Hudson |
| 72 | My French Friends | Constance E. Maud |
| 73 | Pretty Miss Neville | B. M. Croker |
| 74 | Sicilian Lovers | Douglas Sladen |
| 75 | Christine of the Hills | Max Pemberton |
| 76 | Grand Babylon Hotel | Arnold Bennett |
| 77 | A Prince of Lovers | Sir Wm. Magnay, Bart. |
| 78 | The Whip Hand | Keble Howard |
| 79 | The Suspicions of Ermengarde | Maxwell Gray |
| 80 | The Column | Charles Marriott |
| 81 | Cynthia | Leonard Merrick |
| 82 | Jennifer Pontefracte | Alice and Claude Askew |
| 83 | Molly Bawn | Mrs Hungerford |
| 84 | A Sower of Wheat | Harold Bindloss |
| 85 | 2835 Mayfair | Frank Richardson |
| 86 | Two Little Wooden Shoes | Ouida |
| 87 | A Bride from the Bush | Ernest W. Hornung |
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CHAPTER I
IN PARK LANE
BREAKFAST was laid for two in the smallest room—a jewel of a room—of perhaps the largest house in Park Lane. It was already half-past ten, but as yet there was only one occupant of the room, an elderly lady of striking appearance. Her face, a long oval face, was wrinkled and crow-footed in a thousand lines; her capacious forehead was contracted as if with thought; her white eyebrows were thick and firmly drawn; her deep-set eyes were curiously keen and bright; her features were strongly marked,—it was a handsome face which could never, even in early girlhood, have been a pretty face; her abundant hair was of a rich creamy white, the kind of white which in age compensates its owner for the years of her youth when it was inclined to redness; her mouth was full, the lower lip slightly projecting, as is often found with those who speak much and in large rooms; her fingers were restless; her figure was withered by time. When she laid aside the paper she had been reading, and walked across the room to the open window, you might have noticed how frail and thin she seemed, yet how firmly she walked and stood.