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Title: A Woman's Will

Author: Anne Warner

Illustrator: J. H. Caliga

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A Woman's Will

[Illustration]

A Woman's Will
By
Anne Warner

_Illustrated by J. H. Caliga_

[Illustration: con passionato.]

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1904

_Copyright, 1904_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_
Published April, 1904

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PART I
THE RISE OF THE STORM 1

PART II
THE BEATING OF THE WAVES 171

PART III
THE BREAKING OF THE BARRIERS 297

ILLUSTRATIONS

_From Pastel Drawings by I. H. Caliga_

"And the unvoiceable wonder of his magic" _Frontispiece_

"She rose to receive them with radiant countenance" _Page_ 19

"They stood together on the Maximilianbrucke" " 173

"'I want you to pay a lot of attention to what I am
going to say, Rosina'" " 319

A Woman's Will

PART I

THE RISE OF THE STORM

Chapter One

"Good-bye--good-bye, Rosina!" cried Jack, giving one last violent wave
to his handkerchief. And then he put it back in his pocket, because the
crowd upon the deck of the departing Liner had now become a mere blur in
the distance, and distant blurs seemed to his practical nature unworthy
any further outlay of personal energy. "But oh!" he added, as he and
Carter turned to quit the dock, "how the family are just agoing to revel
in peace for these next few months! The Milennium!--well, I don't know!"

"I do not see how you and your Uncle John ever came to let her go off
all alone like that," Carter said, with a gloom that did not try to mask
a terrible repro