Chapter 9 of 68
Chapter X.
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Respecting the sub-title, to which allusion was made above, I may add that it was appended at the last moment, after reading the final proofs, as being the estimate left in a candid mind of the heroine’s character—an estimate that nobody would be likely to dispute. It was disputed more than anything else in the book. _Melius fuerat non scibere._ But there it stands.
The novel was first published complete, in three volumes, in November, 1891.
T.H.
_March_ 1912.
Phase the First:
The Maiden