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Title: Studies in love and in terror

Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes

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STUDIES IN LOVE
AND IN TERROR

BY

MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES

(Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes)

_Short Story Index Reprint Series_

BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS
FREEPORT, NEW YORK

First Published 1913

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

PAGE

PRICE OF ADMIRALTY 1

THE CHILD 99

ST. CATHERINE'S EVE 131

THE WOMAN FROM PURGATORY 187

WHY THEY MARRIED 227

PRICE OF ADMIRALTY

"O mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps! levons l'ancre!
Ce pays nous ennuie, O mort! Appareillons!"

I

Claire de Wissant, wife of Jacques de Wissant, Mayor of Falaise, stood
in the morning sunlight, graceful with a proud, instinctive grace of
poise and gesture, on a wind-blown path close to the edge of the cliff.

At some little distance to her left rose the sloping, mansard roofs of
the Pavillon de Wissant, the charming country house to which her husband
had brought her, a seventeen year old bride, ten long years ago.

She was now gazing eagerly out to sea, shielding her grey, heavy-lidded
eyes with her right hand. From her left hand hung a steel chain, to
which was attached a small key.

A hot haze lay heavily over the great sweep of deep blue waters. It
blotted out the low grey line on the horizon which, on the majority of
each year's days, reminds the citizens of Falaise how near England is to
France.

Jacques de Wissant had rejoiced in the _entente cordiale_, if only
because it brought such a stream of tourists to the old seaport town of
which he was now Mayor. But his beautiful wife thought of the English as
gallant foes rather than as fri