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    A Woman's Will

    [Illustration]




    A Woman's Will
    By
    Anne Warner

    _Illustrated by J. H. Caliga_

    [Illustration: con passionato.]


    Boston
    Little, Brown, and Company
    1904


    _Copyright, 1904_,
    BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.


    _All rights reserved_
    Published April, 1904

    THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.




CONTENTS

                                     PAGE

    PART I
    THE RISE OF THE STORM               1

    PART II
    THE BEATING OF THE WAVES          171

    PART III
    THE BREAKING OF THE BARRIERS      297




ILLUSTRATIONS

    _From Pastel Drawings by I. H. Caliga_

    "And the unvoiceable wonder of his magic"             _Frontispiece_

    "She rose to receive them with radiant countenance"       _Page_ 19

    "They stood together on the Maximilianbrucke"                "  173

    "'I want you to pay a lot of attention to what I am
        going to say, Rosina'"                                   "  319




A Woman's Will

PART I

THE RISE OF THE STORM

Chapter One


"Good-bye--good-bye, Rosina!" cried Jack, giving one last violent wave
to his handkerchief. And then he put it back in his pocket, because the
crowd upon the deck of the departing Liner had now become a mere blur in
the distance, and distant blurs seemed to his practical nature unworthy
any further outlay of personal energy. "But oh!" he added, as he and
Carter turned to quit the dock, "how the