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Title: The Tinted Venus
A Farcical Romance

Author: F. Anstey

Illustrator: Bernard Partridge

Release Date: January 7, 2008 [EBook #24197]

Language: English

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THE TINTED VENUS
A Farcical Romance

BY

F. ANSTEY

AUTHOR OF
"THE GIANT'S ROBE," "VICE VERSA," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER AND BROTHERS
1898

"To you,
Free and ingenious spirits, he doth now
In me, present his service, with his vow
He hath done his best; and, though he cannot glory
In his invention (this work being a story
Of reverend antiquity), he doth hope
In the proportion of it, and the scope,
You may observe some pieces drawn like one
Of a steadfast hand; and with the whiter stone
To be marked in your fair censures. More than this
I am forbid to promise."

MASSINGER.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. IN PURSUIT OF PLEASURE 3

II. PLEASURE IN PURSUIT 27

III. A DISTINGUISHED STRANGER 43

IV. FROM BAD TO WORSE 55

V. AN EXPERIMENT 77

VI. TWO ARE COMPANY 93

VII. A FURTHER PREDICAMENT 109

VIII. BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND