MITCHELHURST PLACE
Reading edition
A Novel
BY
MARGARET VELEY
AUTHOR OF "FOR PERCIVAL"
"Que voulez-vous? Hélas! notre mère Nature, Comme toute autre mère, a ses enfants gâtés, Et pour les malvenus elle est avare et dure!"
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1884
The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.
Bungay:
CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.
TO BARBARA'S BEST FRIEND
ELFRIDA IONIDES
HER STORY IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.