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A demure little crowd they were, standing primly, hand in hand Frontispiece

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Sappho passed her without a glance 28

They finally reached the cottage 48

“You see,” they both remarked confidentially, “we knew Alice, so of course we had to choose you” 64

“Room for the Lady Rowena, the Lady Rose, the Lady Ruth, and the noble Thane Cedric” 86

For there was Peter on the doctor’s horse, with Ruth mounted behind him 110

“Hush, Lorna. No one shall hurt them. But they must go from here at once. Two of my boys are saddling now” 128

“Greeting, sweet maid,” he said to Marian 148

The youth, dismounting, walked slowly toward Guinevere 166

“Rob Roy is frae the Hielands come, Down to the Lowland border” 188

The other, slender, youthful, in white, must be Ramona 206

xii“Father, here are the two friends I told you of,” said Romola 224

“Ladies,” said Dick Swiveller, “I will accept your kind, nay, your princely offer. Let us drink confusion in this tea—confusion to dire destiny” 242

So Gabriel climbed in between Ruth and Evangeline, and the little party hastened on toward the cape 258

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