haps even more real to me, I dismiss with regret, to become for me,
as time runs on, but remembered phantoms of the shadow world of
fiction.

_L'envoi_

Before De Courval and his wife returned to France, the Directory had
come and gone, the greatest of soldiers had taken on the rule, and the
grave Huguenot mother had gone to her grave in Christ Church yard.

Mrs. Swanwick firmly refused to leave her country. "Better, far better,"
she said, "Margaret, that thou shouldst be without me. I shall live to
see thee again and the children."

In after years in Penn's City men read of Napoleon's soldier, General
the Comte de Courval and of the American beauty at the Emperor's court,
while over their Madeira the older men talked of the German gentleman
who had been so long among them, and passed so mysteriously out of the
knowledge of all.

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Transcriber's note:

1. All punctuation inconsistencies between the "List of Illustrations"
and the "Illustrations" themselves have been retained as printed.

2. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the paragraph where the
footnote anchor appears.

3, Punctuation corrections:

p. 72, removed leading double quote (In the hall Dr. Chovet....)

p. 121, changed comma to period (of what was to come.)

p. 145, changed period to comma (will laugh, and soon it will be)

p. 345, added closing quote ("...waiting in New York Harbor.")

p. 375, changed comma to period (I do not need anything.)

p. 394, removed ending double quote (figure and the occasion.)

p. 415, changed period to comma (I want of thee,)

4. Spelling corrections: (number in parentheses) indicate the number of
times the word was spelled correctly in the original text.

p. 22, "Mon dieu!" to "Mon Dieu!" (26) (translated: my God!)

p. 73, "himslf" to "himself" (86) (he could avenge himself)

p. 169, "mon dieu" to "mon Dieu" (26)

p. 275, "mon dieu!" to "mon Dieu!" (26)

p. 320, "Angles" to "Angels" (the Angels find the marge)

5. Word variations used in this text which have been retained:

"Ach" (unitalicized p. 1-95) and "Ach" (always italicized thereafter)
"a-foot" (1) and "afoot" (2)
"appal" (1), "appalled" (4), "appalling" (2)
"bed-room" (1) and "bedroom" (1)
"candle-light" (1) and "candlelight" (2)
"match-making" (1) and "matchmaking" (1)
"practice" (2) and "practise(ed)" (2)
"Shaks