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A Novel.
BY
EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN.
‘Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower,
safety ... I protest, our plot is as good a plot as
ever was laid.’
Henry IV., Pt. I., Act II., Sc. III.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. II.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1884.
[All Rights Reserved.]

| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | A SECOND ALFRED BELASSIS | 1 |
| II. | MRS. BELASSIS VISITS LADYWELL | 21 |
| III. | THE MISSING PAPER | 40 |
| IV. | WILD OATS | 59 |
| V. | A VISIT TO GERMANY | 79 |
| VI. | DISCOMFITED | 97 |
| VII. | BETSY LONG | 117 |
| VIII. | BETROTHED | 135 |
| IX. | A GUEST FROM ITALY | 155 |
| X. | FRIEND OR FOE? | 176[Pg iv] |
| XI. | MRS. BELASSIS FINDS AN ALLY | 197 |
| XII. | MISS MARJORY’S OPINIONS | 218 |
| XIII. | PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS | 237 |
| XIV. | AN AGREEABLE DINNER | 258 |
| XV. | MAUD’S DECISION | 278 |