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DAUGHTERS OF MEN
DAUGHTERS OF MEN
BY
HANNAH LYNCH
AUTHOR OF
“TROUBLED WATERS,” ETC.
NEW YORK
JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
150 WORTH ST., COR. MISSION PLACE
Copyright, 1892,
BY
UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY
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[All rights reserved.]
TO DEMETRIOS BIKELAS.
My Dear Friend,
Of your kindly interpretation of the laughter here and there in thisvolume, purporting to be a picture of modern Greek life, I have nodoubt. You at least know that I lack neither friendship nor sympathywith your race. We like not the less those whom we laugh at, providedour laughter is not meant to wound. For are not our own absurdities andweaknesses mirrored in those of others?
My more serious preoccupation is the accuracy of my judgment andobservation. For any errors on this ground I claim your indulgence. Theforeign observer is proverbially impertinent and inaccurate, as we inIreland have sad reason to know. We do not lack our Abouts, though itmay be doubted if we accept them in a spirit so generous as you do.
In placing your name before my story, I may be said to hoist thecolours of Greece, and under them dare sail my little bark of Greekpassengers without any fear of coming to grief upon Hellenic shores,should I have the honour to penetrate so far.
H. L.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | AT THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY. | 5 |
| II. | THE BARON VON HOHENFELS EXPRESSES AN OPINION. | 25 |
| III. | FAREWELL TO YOU!—TO YOU GOOD CHEER! | 33 |
| IV. | AN ATHENIAN HOUSEHOLD. | 45 |
| V. | HOW GUSTAV REINEKE MISSED MADAME JAROVISKY’S BALL. | 57 |
| VI. | A FIGHT IN THE CAMP OF HELLAS. | 68 |
| VII. | PHOTINI NATZELHUBER. | 76 |
| VIII. | THE RESULT OF THE BARON’S ADVICE. | 95 |
| IX. | MADAME JAROVISKY’S BALL. | 103 |
| X. | A RANDOM SHOT. | 117 |
| XI. | ...||