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Title: Kate Coventry
An Autobiography

Author: G. J. Whyte-Melville

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Language: English

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KATE COVENTRY

An Autobiography

Edited by

G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE

[Illustration: Now began a battle in good earnest.]

T. Nelson and Sons
1909

CONTENTS.

Chapter I 3
Chapter II 15
Chapter III 24
Chapter IV 35
Chapter V 46
Chapter VI 58
Chapter VII 66
Chapter VIII 77
Chapter IX 89
Chapter X 103
Chapter XI 114
Chapter XII 125
Chapter XIII 138
Chapter XIV 151
Chapter XV 163
Chapter XVI 175
Chapter XVII 188
Chapter XVIII 201
Chapter XIX 214
Chapter XX 228
Chapter XXI 241
Chapter XXII 254
Chapter XXIII 267
Chapter XXIV 274

KATE COVENTRY.

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER I.

"Kate," said Aunt Deborah to me as we sat with our feet on the fender
one rainy afternoon--or, as we were in London, I should say one rainy
morning--in June, "I think altogether, considering the weather and
what not, it would be as well for you to give up this Ascot
expedition, my dear."

I own I felt more than half inclined to cry--most girls would have
cried--but Aunt Deborah says I am very unlike the generality of women;
and so, although I had ordered a peach-coloured mantle, and such a
bonnet as can only be seen at Ascot on the Cup Day, I kept back my
tears, and swallowed that horrid choking feeling in my throat, whilst
I replied, with the most careless manner I could assume, "Goodness,
aunt, it won't rain for ever: not that I care; but think what a
disappointment for John!"

I must h