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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS DAWN THE WITCH’S HEAD KING SOLOMON’S MINES SHE JESS ALLAN QUATERMAIN MAIWA’S REVENGE MR. MEESON’S WILL COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C. CLEOPATRA ALLAN’S WIFE BEATRICE ERIC BRIGHTEYES NADA THE LILY MONTEZUMA’S DAUGHTER THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST JOAN HASTE THE WORLD’S DESIRE (IN COLLABORATION WITH ANDREW LANG)

JOAN HASTE

by H. Rider Haggard

AUTHOR OF ‘KING SOLOMON’S MINES,’ ‘SHE, ’ ‘ALLAN QUATERMAIN,’ ETC.

‘Il y a une page effrayante dans le livre des destinées humaines; on y lit en tête ces mots “les désirs accomplis.”’—GEORGES SAND

WITH 20 ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. S. WILSON

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1895

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I. H.

‘Indeed, in that moment she was lovely.’