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Title: Robert Elsmere

Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward

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ROBERT ELSMERE

BY

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

AUTHOR OF 'MISS BRETHERTON'

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1888

All rights reserved

Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh.

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Dedicated to the Memory

OF

MY TWO FRIENDS,

SEPARATED, IN MY THOUGHT OF THEM, BY MUCH DIVERSITY OF
CIRCUMSTANCE AND OPINION;
LINKED, IN MY FAITH ABOUT THEM, TO EACH OTHER,
AND TO ALL THE SHINING ONES OF THE PAST,
BY THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE
SERVICE OF MAN:

THOMAS HILL GREEN
(LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),
_Died 26th March 1882_;

AND

LAURA OCTAVIA MARY LYTTELTON,
_Died Easter Eve 1886_.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

BOOK I
WESTMORELAND 1

BOOK II
SURREY 149

BOOK III
THE SQUIRE 251

BOOK IV
CRISIS 333

BOOK V
ROSE 387

BOOK VI
NEW OPENINGS 461

BOOK VII
GAIN AND LOSS 549

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NOTE

The quotations given in the present book on pp. 58, 330, and 536, are
either literally or substantially taken from a volume of Lay Sermons,
called _The Witness of God_, by the late Professor T. H. Green.

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BOOK I

WESTMORELAND

CHAPTER I

It was a brilliant afternoon towards the end of May. The spring had been
unusually cold and late, and it was evident from the general aspect of
the lonely Westmoreland valley of Long Whindale that warmth and sunshine
had only just penetrated to its bare