The Woman Thou Gavest Me [antikvár]

THE AUTHOR TO THE READER HOW much of the story of Mary O'Neill is a work of my own imagination, and how much comes from an authentic source 1 do not consider ií necessary to say. But as I have in this tnstance drawn more largely and directly from fact than is usually the practice of the novelist, I have thcught it my duty to dejeat all possible attempts at personal Identification by altefing and disguising the more important scenes and characters. Therefore this növel is not to be understood as vejening to any living person or persons, and the convent school described in it is not to he identified wiih any similai iducational institutí&n in Romé,