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The Love-Story of

Aliette Brunton

By Gilbert Frankau

F. D. GOODCHILD

TORONTO

1922

Copyright, 1922, by

The Century Co.

Printed in U. S. A.

TO MY WIFE AND LOYAL ASSOCIATE

AIMÉE DE BURGH FRANKAU

IN ALL LOVE AND A GREAT REVERENCE

THIS STORY OF A WOMAN'S COURAGE

But woman's gamble (there's only one;

And it takes some pluck to play,

When the rules are broke ere the game's begun;

When, lose or win, you must pay!)

Is a double wager on human kind,

A limitless risk--and she goes it blind.

For she stakes, at love, on a single throw,

Pride, Honor, Scruples, and Fears,

And dreams no lover can hope to know,

And the gold of the after-years.

(And all for a man; and there's no man lives

Who is worth the odds that a woman gives.)

--From "The Judgment of Valhalla."

THE LOVE-STORY OF

ALIETTE BRUNTON

The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton