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Title: Marjorie

Author: Justin Huntly McCarthy

Release Date: July 16, 2008 [EBook #26057]

Language: English

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MARJORIE

BY

Justin Huntly McCarthy

_Author of_ "IF I WERE KING"

_Oh Marjorie, my world's delight
Your yellow hair is angel-bright,
Your eyes are angel-blue.
I thought, and think, the sweetest sight
Between the morning and the night
Is just the sight of you._

New York

R. H. RUSSELL

1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY R. H. RUSSELL

First Impression, March, 1903

[Illustration]

To

ANTHONY HOPE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. MY APOLOGY 1

II. LANCELOT AMBER 7

III. THE ALEHOUSE BY THE RIVER 15

IV. A MAID CALLED BARBARA 29

V. LANCELOT LEAVES 38

VI. THE GENTLEMAN IN BLUE 54

VII. CAPTAIN MARMADUKE'S PLAN 62

VIII. THE COMPANY AT THE NOBLE ROSE 68

IX. THE TALK IN THE DOLPHIN 72

X. SHE COMES DOWN THE STAIRS 81

XI. A FEAST OF THE GODS 87

XII. MR. DAVIES'S GIFTS 91

XIII. TO THE SEA 100

XIV. THE SEA LIFE 105

XV. UTOPIA HO! 113

XVI. I MAKE A DISCOVERY 117

XVII. A VISITATION 126

XVIII. THE NIGHT AND MORNING 134

XIX. HOW SOME OF US GOT TO THE ISLAND 145

XX. A BAD NIG