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Title: Name and Fame
A Novel

Author: Adeline Sergeant

Release Date: September 27, 2009 [EBook #30110]

Language: English

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NAME and FAME

A NOVEL

BY ADELINE SERGEANT

_Author of "The Great Mill Street Mystery," "A True Friend," "A Life
Sentence," etc., etc._

Montreal:
JOHN LOVELL & SON,
23 St. Nicholas Street.

[Handwritten: This is the only edition of "Name and Fame" published in
the United States and Canada with my authority, and the only one by the
sale, which I shall profit. Adeline Sergeant.]

Entered according to Act of Parliament in the year 1890, by John Lovell
& Son, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at
Ottawa.

NAME AND FAME

CHAPTER I.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

It was a brilliant day in June. The sky was cloudless and dazzlingly
blue, but the heat of the sun's rays was tempered by a deliciously cool
breeze, and the foliage of the trees that clothe the pleasant slopes
round the vivacious little town of Aix-les-Bains afforded plenty of
shade to the pedestrian. Aix was, as usual, very crowded and very gay.
German potentates abounded: French notabilities were not wanting: it was
rumored that English royalty was coming. A very motley crowd of divers
nationalities drank the waters every morning and discussed the latest
society scandal. Festivity seemed to haunt the very air of the place,
beaming from the trim white villas with their smart green jalousies, the
tall hotels with crudely tinted flags flying from their roofs, the
cheery little shops with their cheerier _dames de comptoir_ smiling
complacently on the tourists who unwarily bought their goods. Ladies in
gay toilets, with scarlet