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Title: Love and Lucy

Author: Maurice Henry Hewlett

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LOVE AND LUCY

by

MAURICE HEWLETT

Author of "The Forest Lovers," "The Life and
Death of Richard Yea and Nay," etc.

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1916

Copyright, 1916
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

_BEATI POSSIDENTES_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I ONSLOW SQUARE 1
II A DINNER PARTY 16
III IN THE DRAWING-ROOM 31
IV AFTER-TALK 41
V EROS STEPS IN 53
VI A LEAP OUTWARDS 74
VII PATIENCE AND PSYCHE 84
VIII AGAIN 102
IX SUNDRY ROMANTIC EPISODES 112
X AT A WORLD'S EDGE 121
XI ANTEROS 134
XII MARTLEY THICKET (1) 148
XIII MARTLEY THICKET (2) 162
XIV THE GREAT SCHEME 175
XV JAMES 188
XVI _Amari Aliquid_ 196
XVII THE SHIVERING FIT 209
XVIII THE HARDANGER 227
XIX THE MOON-SPELL 235
XX FAIR WARNING 247
XXI THE DEPARTURE 256
XXII CATASTROPHE 268
XXIII JAMES AND JIMMY 280
XXIV URQUHART'S APOLOGY 292
EPILOGUE: _Quid Plura_? 306

LOVE AND LUCY

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