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Title: Man and Maid

Author: E. (Edith) Nesbit

Release Date: June 30, 2010 [EBook #33028]

Language: English

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MAN AND MAID

BY

E. NESBIT

[Illustration: Publisher's Logo]

LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
ADELPHI TERRACE

MCMVI

[_All rights reserved._]

TO
ADA BREAKELL
MY DEAREST AND OLDEST FRIEND

MAN AND MAID

By the same Author.

_Illustrated. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 6s._

The Treasure Seekers.

Five Children and It.

Nine Unlikely Tales for Children.

The Would-be-Goods.

New Treasure Seekers.

LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. THE HAUNTED INHERITANCE 1

II. THE POWER OF DARKNESS 32

III. THE STRANGER WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN OBSERVED 60

IV. RACK AND THUMBSCREW 84

V. THE MILLIONAIRESS 103

VI. THE HERMIT OF "THE YEWS" 134

VII. THE AUNT AND THE EDITOR 158

VIII. MISS MOUSE 178

IX. THE OLD WIFE 201

X. THE HOUSE OF SILENCE 224

XI. THE GIRL AT THE TOBACCONIST'S 245

XII. WHILE IT IS YET DAY 268

XIII. ALCIBIADES 287

MAN AND MAID

I

THE HAUNTED INHERITANCE

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