"AS THOUGH SHE LISTENED STILL TO WORDS IN HER EARS"
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Lady Rose's Daughter
A Novel
BY
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD
Author of "Eleanor" "Robert Elsmere" etc. etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
1903
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ILLUSTRATION
| "AS THOUGH SHE LISTENED STILL TO WORDS IN HER EARS" | Frontispiece |
| "LADY HENRY LISTENED EAGERLY" | Facing p. 30 |
| "'INDEED I WILL!' CRIED SIR WILFRID, AND THEY WALKED ON" | 52 |
| "LADY HENRY GASPED. SHE FELL BACK INTO HER CHAIR" | 100 |
| "HE ENTERED UPON A MERRY SCENE" | 242 |
| "'FOR MY ROSE'S CHILD,' HE SAID, GENTLY" | 254 |
| "HER HANDS CLASPED IN FRONT OF HER" | 356 |
| "SHE FOUND HERSELF KNEELING BESIDE HIM" | 480 |
LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER
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"Hullo! No!--Yes!--upon my soul, it is Jacob! Why,Delafield, my dear fellow, how are you?"
So saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--anelderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab,which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastilywent to meet a young man who was at the same moment stepping out ofanother hansom a little farther down the pavement.
The pleasure in the older man's voice rang clear, and theyounger met him with an equal cordiality, expressed perhaps througha manner more leisurely and restrained.
"So you are home, Sir Wilfrid? You wer