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“This is one of the most delightful novels we have read for a long time.
‘Bab’ Fenwick is an ‘out of doors’ kind of girl, full of spirit, wit,
go, and sin, both original and acquired. Her lover, Jack, is all that a
hero should be, and great and magnanimous as he is, finds some
difficulty in forgiving the _insouciante_ mistress all her little sins
of omission and commission. When she finally shoots him in the leg—by
accident—the real tragedy of the story begins. The whole is admirable,
if a little long.”—_Black and White._
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_Each in One Volume, Crown Octavo, 3s. 6d._
MARY FENWICK’S DAUGHTER.
By BEATRICE WHITBY.
“This is one of the most delightful novels we have read for a long time.
‘Bab’ Fenwick is an ‘out of doors’ kind of girl, full of spirit, wit,
go, and sin, both original and acquired. Her lover, Jack, is all that a
hero should be, and great and magnanimous as he is, finds some
difficulty in forgiving the _insouciante_ mistress all her little sins
of omission and commission. When she finally shoots him in the leg—by
accident—the real tragedy of the story begins. The whole is admirable,
if a little long.”—_Black and White._
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ROBERT CARROLL.
By the Author of ‘MISTRESS BEATRICE COPE.’
“M. E. Le Clerc devotes herself to historic fiction, and her success is
sufficient to justify her in the occasional production of stories like
‘Mistress Beatrice Cope’ and ‘Robert Carroll.’ Beatrice Cope was a
Jacobite’s daughter, so far as memory serves, and Robert Carroll was the
son of a Jacobite baronet, who played and lost his stake at Preston,
fighting for the Old Pretender. Of course the hero loved a maiden whose
father was a loyal servant of King George, and, almost equally of course
one of this maiden’s brothers was a Jacobite. A second brother, by the
way, appears as a lad of sixteen in the spring of 1714, and as a wounded
colonel of cavalry on the morrow of the fight at Preston less than two
years later—rapid promotion even for those days, though certainly not
impossible. The author has taken pains to be accurate in her references
to the events of the time, and her blend of fact and fiction is romantic
enough.”—_Athenæum._
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THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE.
By the Author of ‘SOME MARRIED FELLOWS.’
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