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A HOUSE-PARTY

Don Gesualdo

and

A Rainy June

by

OUIDA

Author Of "Othmar," "Princess Napeaxine," "Under Two Flags," "Wanda,"
Etc., Etc.







Philadelphia:
J. B. Lippincott Company.
1902.




A HOUSE-PARTY.




CHAPTER I.


It is an August morning.