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Project Gutenberg's The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2), by Daniel Defoe This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana Author: Daniel Defoe Release Date: October 27, 2009 [EBook #30344] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FORTUNATE MISTRESS (PARTS 1 AND 2) *** Produced by Meredith Bach, Jane Hyland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) ROXANA [Illustration: _I was rich, beautiful, and agreeable, and not yet old_ PAGE 244] The Cripplegate Edition THE WORKS OF DANIEL DEFOE THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS OR A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF MADEMOISELLE DE BELEAU KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE LADY ROXANA NEW YORK . . _MCMVIII_ GEORGE D. SPROUL _Copyright, 1904, by_ THE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PRESS . JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ROXANA _Frontispiece_ THE BREWER AND HIS MEN _Page_ 12 THE JEWELLER IS ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR VERSAILLES 74 THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE 90 THE DUTCH MERCHANT CALLS ON ROXANA. 286 THE AMOUR DRAWS TO AN END 302 ROXANA'S DAUGHTER AND THE QUAKER 479 ROXANA IS CONFRONTED WITH HER DAUGHTER 534 INTRODUCTION In March, 1724, was published the narrative in which Defoe came, perhaps even nearer than in _Moll Flanders_, to writing what we to-day call a novel, namely: _The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de' Belau; afterwards called the Countess of Wintelsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II_. No second edition appeared till after Defoe's death, which occurred in 1731. Then for some years, various editions of _The F
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