ILLUSTRATIONS
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The curtain rises12
Their expression is stamped with deep thought28
He kisses her on the bare shoulder30
He takes her in his arms50
"Is it me?"58
I did go—I kept the appointment66
He showed me a church that I could have bought for a hundred thousand72
I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever84
When he reached my face he looked searchingly at it88
The tailor shrugged his shoulders98
Something in the quiet dignity of the young man held me114
The Parisian dog120
Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit142
The lady's face is aglow with moral enthusiasm146
Meanwhile he had become a quaint-looking elderly man166
With all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features174