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THE MOTHER’S RECOMPENSE
BY EDITH WHARTON Author of “Old New York,” “The Age of Innocence,” “The Glimpses of the Moon,” etc.
Desolation is a delicate thing. Shelley.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK :: LONDON :: MCMXXV
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1924, 1925 by The Pictorial Review Company PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
My excuses are due to the decorous shade of Grace Aguilar, loved of our grandmothers, for deliberately appropriating, and applying to uses so different, the title of one of the most admired of her tales.
E. W.