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Title: Superseded

Author: May Sinclair

Release Date: September 24, 2004 [EBook #13522]

Language: English

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SUPERSEDED

BY MAY SINCLAIR

_Author of "The Divine Fire"_

1906

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Miss Sinclair has expressed a desire to have this book republished in
America, because she considers it the best of her work previous to "The
Divine Fire." It originally appeared with another work in a volume
entitled "Two Sides of a Question," a small imported edition of which is
now exhausted.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. PROLOGUE.--MISS QUINCEY STOPS THE WAY
II. HOUSEHOLD GODS
III. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
IV. BASTIAN CAUTLEY, M.D.
V. HEALERS AND REGENERATORS
VI. SPRING FASHIONS
VII. UNDER A BLUE MOON
VIII. A PAINFUL MISUNDERSTANDING
IX. THROUGH THE STETHOSCOPE
X. MISS QUINCEY STANDS BACK
XI. DR. CAUTLEY SENDS IN HIS BILL
XII. EPILOGUE.--THE MAN AND THE WOMAN

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CHAPTER I

Prologue.--Miss Quincey Stops the Way

"Stand back, Miss Quincey, if you please."

The school was filing out along the main corridor of St. Sidwell's. It
came with a tramp and a rustle and a hiss and a tramp, urged to a trot by
the excited teachers. The First Division first, half-woman, carrying
itself smoothly, with a swish of its long skirts, with a blush, a dreamy
intellectual smile, or a steadfast impenetrable air, as it happened to be
more or less conscious of the presence of the Head. Then the Second
Division, light-hearted, irrepressible, making a noise with its feet,
loose hair flapping, pig-tails flopping to the beat of its march. Then
the straggling, diminishing lines of the Third, a froth of white
pinafores, a confusion of legs, black or tan, staggering, shifting,
shuffling in a frantic effort to keep time.

On it came in a waving s