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Title: The Heart of a Woman

Author: Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Release Date: June 7, 2010 [EBook #32730]

Language: English

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THE HEART OF A WOMAN

BY BARONESS ORCZY

AUTHOR OF "THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL," "PETTICOAT RULE," ETC.

[Illustration]

HODDER & STOUGHTON
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1911,
By George H. Doran Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--WHICH TELLS OF A VERY COMMONPLACE INCIDENT 3
II.--ONCE MORE THE OBVIOUS 14
III.--AND NOW ALMOST LIKE A DREAM 17
IV.--NOTHING REALLY TANGIBLE 32
V.--JUST AN OBVIOUS DUTY 39
VI.--JUST A DISAGREEABLE OLD MAN 46
VII.--THE PART PLAYED BY A FIVE-POUND NOTE 50
VIII.--AND THUS THE SHADOW DESCENDED 59
IX.--WHICH TELLS OF THE INEVITABLE RESULT 65
X.--LIFE MUST GO ON JUST THE SAME 72
XI.--AND THERE ARE SOCIAL DUTIES TO PERFORM 84
XII.--SHALL A MAN ESCAPE HIS FATE? 92
XIII.--THEY HAVE NO HEART 95
XIV.--THE TALE HAD TO BE TOLD 105
XV.--AND MANY MUST BE QUESTIONED 112
XVI.--AND THE PUPPETS DANCED 120
XVII.--AND WHAT OF THE SECRET? 125
XVIII.--IT WOULD NOT DO, YOU KNOW 132
XIX.--NOT ALL ABOUT IT 138
XX.--AND THAT'S THE TRUTH 149
XXI.--HAVE ANOTHER CIGAR 156
XXII.--THEN THE MIRACLE WAS WROUGHT 167
XXIII.--WHY ALL THIS MYSTERY? 179
XXIV.--A HERD O