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DESOLATE SPLENDOUR
DESOLATE SPLENDOUR
BY
MICHAEL SADLEIR
TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE 1923
COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1923 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED.
PRINTED IN CANADA
THIS FLAMBOYANT TALE—A STORY OF AMBITIOUS HEDONISM AND OF THE DESOLATE SPLENDOUR OF A GIRL’S DEVOTION, A STORY OF PERVERTED CRUELTY, OF LUST FOR PROPERTY AND OF THE GENIAL OBTUSENESS OF THE UPRIGHT IS FROM GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP FROM ADMIRATION OF HIS SENSIBILITY AND FROM A DUE APPRECIATION OF HIS AUSPICIOUS CIPHER INSCRIBED WITH CORDIAL REGARD TO O. K.