Transcribed from the 1896 Harper and Brothers edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] [Picture: “I laid the scene at Lakewood”] A REBELLIOUS HEROINE A Story * * * * * BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS ILLUSTRATED BY W. T. SMEDLEY [Picture: Decoractive graphic] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1896 * * * * * BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. * * * * * THE BICYCLES, AND THREE OTHER FARCES. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1 25. A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1 25. Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica. Illustrated. 16mo, Closth, $1 25. THE IDIOT. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00. THE WATER GHOST, AND OTHERS. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth $1 25. COFFEE AND REPARTEE. Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents. THREE WEEKS IN POLITICS. Illustrated. 32 mo, Cloth, 50 cents. * * * * * PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. * * * * * Copyright, 1896, by HARPER & BROTHERS. * * * * * _All rights reserved_. TO A H. B. * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS “I LAID THE SCENE AT LAKEWOOD” _Frontispiece_ “AM I A MERE MARIONETTE?” 28 A REBELLIOUS HEROINE 38 HE WENT INTO ONE OF HIS TRANCES 56 “THE DARK EYES OF COUNT BONETTI FLASHED” 92 THE WALK OF THE CLIFF 136 “I AM NOT GOING TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY” 222 “THEY THOUGHT I OUGHT TO GIVE UP HUMOR” 224 I STUART HARLEY: REALIST “—_if a word could save me_, _and that word were not the Truth_, _nay_, _if it did but swerve a hair’s-breadth from the Truth_, _I would not say it_!” —LONGFELLOW. STUART HARLEY, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was.