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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan, by Daisy Ashford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan Author: Daisy Ashford Release Date: May 11, 2007 [EBook #21415] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOUNG VISITERS *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David T. Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: THE AUTHOR] THE YOUNG VISITERS OR, MR SALTEENA'S PLAN BY DAISY ASHFORD WITH A PREFACE BY J. M. BARRIE NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY _Copyright_, 1919, _By George H. Doran Company_ _Printed in the United States of America_ [Pg v] PREFACE The "owner of the copyright" guarantees that "The Young Visiters" is the unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years. "Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work. This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six): it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness. It needed no effort for that face to knock off a masterpiece. It probably represents precisely how she looked when she finished a chapter. When she was actually at work I think the expression [Pg vi] was more solemn, with the tongue firmly clenched between the teeth; an unholy rapture showing as she drew near her love chapter. Fellow-craftsmen will see that she is looking forward to this chapter all the time. The manuscript is in pencil in a stout little note book (twopence), and there it has lain for years, for though the authoress was nine when she wrote it she is now a grown woman. It has lain, in lavender as it were, in the dumpy note book, waiting for a publisher to ride that way and rescue it; and here he is at last, not a bit afraid that to this age it may appear "Victorian." Indeed if its pictures of High Life are accurate (as we cannot
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