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THE HEROINE

by

EATON STANNARD BARRETT

With an Introduction by Walter Raleigh







London
Henry Frowde
1909

Oxford: Horace Hart
Printer to the University




INTRODUCTION


'In Glamorganshire, of a rapid decline, occasioned by the bursting of a
blood-vessel,