Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books (Harvard College Library) Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=8tYMAAAAYAAJ 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe] THE ABBESS OF VLAYE By STANLEY J. WEYMAN * * * THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF. A Romance. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. THE STORY OF FRANCIS CLUDDE. A Romance. With four Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.25. A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE. Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne, Sieur de Marsac. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. UNDER THE RED ROBE. With twelve full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. MY LADY ROTHA. A Romance of the Thirty Years' War. With eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. FROM THE MEMOIRS OF A MINISTER OF FRANCE. With thirty-six Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. THE MAN IN BLACK. With twelve Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.00. SHREWSBURY. A Romance. With twenty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50. THE RED COCKADE. A Novel. With forty-eight Illustrations by R. Caton Woodville. Crown 8vo, $1.50. THE CASTLE INN. A Novel. With six full-page Illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark. Crown 8vo, $1.50. SOPHIA. A Romance. With twelve full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50. COUNT HANNIBAL. A Romance of the Court of France. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo $1.50. IN KINGS' BYWAYS. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, $1.50. * * * New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. [Illustration: "HE HAD DISMOUNTED, AND HAD HIS HAT IN HIS HAND"] [_Page_ 113] THE ABBESS OF VLAYE BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN _Author of "Under the Red Robe," "A Gentleman of France," "My Lady Rotha," "The Red Cockade," "Count Hannibal," "The Castle Inn," etc_. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 and 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK LONDON AND BOMBAY 1904 Copyright, 1903, by STANLEY J. WEYMAN. * * * Copyright, 1904, by STANLEY J. WEYMAN. * * * _All rights reserved_. ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK. TO HUGH STOWELL SCOTT, IN REMEMBRANCE OF LONG SUMMER DAYS SPENT WITH HIM AMID THE SCENES WHICH SUGGESTED IT, THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY HIS FRIEND.