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                          MOUNT ROYAL

                            A Novel

    BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET" ETC. ETC. ETC.


    In Three Volumes

    VOL. I.

    LONDON
    JOHN AND ROBERT MAXWELL
    MILTON HOUSE, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
    1882

    [_All rights reserved_]

    Ballantyne Press
    BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH
    CHANDOS STREET, LONDON




CONTENTS TO VOL. I.


    CHAP.                                                         PAGE

        I. THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE                                 1

       II. BUT THEN CAME ONE, THE LOVELACE OF HIS DAY               35

      III. "TINTAGEL, HALF IN SEA, AND HALF ON LAND"                71

       IV. "LOVE! THOU ART LEADING ME FROM WINTRY COLD"            103

        V. "THE SILVER ANSWER RANG,--'NOT DEATH, BUT LOVE'"        128

       VI. IN SOCIETY                                              144

      VII. CUPID AND PSYCHE                                        199

     VIII. LE SECRET DE POLICHINELLE                               228

       IX. "LOVE IS LOVE FOR EVERMORE"                             275




MOUNT ROYAL.




CHAPTER I.

THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.


"And he was a widower," said Christabel.

She was listening to an oft-told tale, kneeling in the firelight, at her
aunt's knee, the ruddy glow tenderly touching her fair soft hair and
