The Project Gutenberg EBook of Molly Bawn, by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

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.org

Title: Molly Bawn

Author: Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

Release Date: August 1, 2007 [EBook #22214]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLY BAWN ***

Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

MOLLY BAWN

By

THE DUCHESS

(Margaret Wolfe Hamilton)

Author of "Phylis," "Airy Fairy Lilian," "Portia," Etc,. Etc.

NEW YORK
HURST AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents was not printed in this book.
It has been created for the convenience of the reader.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER II. CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER III. CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER V. CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XXXVII.
CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XXXVIII.

MOLLY BAWN.

CHAPTER I.

"On hospitable thoughts intent."

"Positively he is coming!" says Mr. Massereene, with an air of the most
profound astonishment.

"_Who?_" asks Molly, curiously, pausing with her toast in mid-air (they
are at breakfast), and with her lovely eyes twice their usual goodly
size. Her lips, too, are apart; but whether in anticipation of the news
or of the toast, it would be difficu