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Title: Katrine

Author: Elinor Macartney Lane

Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #14263]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "I HAVE WAITED ALL THESE YEARS"]

KATRINE

A Novel

BY

ELINOR MACARTNEY LANE

AUTHOR OF "NANCY STAIR" AND "MILLS OF GOD"

NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

MCMIX

Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved._

Published March, 1909.

_To_ =Grant B. Schley=

_Dear and great Friend! In_ =Katrine's= _fancied_ "Land"
_You long have held your own much-honored place--
Have met great Esmond; held kind Newcome's hand;
And talked with merry Alan face to face;
For there, where Loyalty was word of countersign,
You entered, all unchallenged, for the land was thine!_

_E.M.L._

PARIS, 1909

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
PREFACE vii
I. UNDER THE SOUTHERN PINES 1
II. THE MEETING IN THE WOODS 15
III. A KINDNESS WITH MIXED MOTIVES 29
IV. THE PROMISE IN THE ROSE GARDEN 43
V. FRANK FALLS FURTHER UNDER KATRINE'S INFLUENCE 50
VI. DERMOTT GIVES A DINNER AT THE OLD LODGE 63
VII. KATRINE'S OWN COUNTRY 76
VIII. FRANK YIELDS TO TEMPTATION 88
IX. THE TRUTH 94
X. TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND 104
XI. KATRINE IS LEFT ALONE 113
XII. THE REAL FRANCIS RAVENEL 121
XIII. DERMOTT'S INTERVIEW WITH FRANK AT THE TREVOY 1