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  THE SEA LADY



  [Illustration: "Am I doing it right?" asked the Sea Lady.
                                                (See page 150.)]



  THE SEA LADY

  BY
  H. G. WELLS

  _ILLUSTRATED_

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK
  D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
  1902



  COPYRIGHT, 1902
  BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

  _Published September, 1902_

  Copyright 1901 by H. G. Wells




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                                 PAGE

      I.--THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY                         1

     II.--SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS                            30

    III.--THE EPISODE OF THE VARIOUS JOURNALISTS            71

     IV.--THE QUALITY OF PARKER                             90

      V.--THE ABSENCE AND RETURN OF MR. HARRY CHATTERIS    101

     VI.--SYMPTOMATIC                                      133

    VII.--THE CRISIS                                       204

   VIII.--MOONSHINE TRIUMPHANT                             285




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                            FACING
                                                              PAGE

  "Am I doing it right?" asked the Sea Lady    _Frontispiece_

  "Stuff that the public won't believe aren't facts"            81

  She positively and quietly settled down with the Buntings     90

  A little group about the Sea Lady's bath chair               134

  "Why not?"                                                   160

  The waiter retires amazed                                    170

  They seemed never to do anything but blow and sigh and
      rustle papers                                            180

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