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Title: Clementina

Author: A.E.W. Mason

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[Illustration: "'SIR,' SAID THE LADY IN ITALIAN, 'I NEED A
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Clementina

By A.E.W. Mason

Author of "The Courtship of Morrice Buckler" "Parson Kelly" etc.

Illustrated by Bernard Partridge

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

1901

THIRD EDITION

UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO
ANDREW LANG, ESQ.
AS A TOKEN OF MUCH
FRIENDSHIP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. A CHANCE MEETING
II. BAD NEWS
III. WOGAN MAKES A PROPOSAL
IV. SHOWS THAT THERE ARE BETTER HIDING-PLACES THAN A WINDOW-CURTAIN
V. SHOWS THAT A DISHONEST LANDLORD SHOULD AVOID WHITE PAINT
VI. WOGAN CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY
VII. WOGAN IS MISTAKEN FOR A MORE NOTABLE MAN
VIII. AT SCHLESTADT
IX. GAYDON MINDS HIS OWN BUSINESS
X. A MONTH OF WAITING
XI. THE PRINCE OF BADEN VISITS CLEMENTINA
XII. THE NIGHT OF THE 27TH. IN THE STREETS OF INNSPRUCK
XIII. THE NIGHT OF THE 27TH. IN CLEMENTINA'S APARTMENTS
XIV. THE ESCAPE
XV. THE FLIGHT TO ITALY: WOGAN'S CITY OF DREAMS
XVI. THE FLIGHT TO ITALY: THE POTENT EFFECTS OF A WATER-JUG
XVII. THE FLIGHT TO ITALY: A GROWING CLOUD
XVIII. WOGAN AND CLEMENTINA CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY ALONE
XIX. THE ATTACK AT PERI
XX. THE GOD OF THE MACHINE DOES NOT APPEAR
XXI. COMPLICATIONS AT BOLOGNA
XXII. CLEMENTINA TAKES MR. WOGAN TO VISIT THE CAPRARA PALACE
XXIII. WOGAN LEARNS THAT HE HAS MEDDLED
XXIV. MARIA VITTORIA REAPPEARS
XXV. THE LAST
THE EPILOGUE

CLEMENTINA

CHAPTER I

The landlord, the lady, and Mr. Charles Wogan were all three, it seemed,
in luck's way that September morning of the year 1719. Wogan was not
surprised, his luck for the moment was altogether in, so that