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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Peter and Jane, by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan 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: Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir Author: S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan Release Date: July 12, 2008 [eBook #26044] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PETER AND JANE*** E-text prepared by Al Haines Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original musical notations. See 26044-h.htm or 26044-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/0/4/26044/26044-h/26044-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/0/4/26044/26044-h.zip) PETER AND JANE Or The Missing Heir by S. MACNAUGHTAN Author of 'The Fortune of Christina M'nab' Sixth Edition Methuen & Co. Ltd. 36 Essex Street W.C. London First Issued in this Cheap Form (Fourth Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2nd 1914 Fifth Edition . . . . . . . . . . . May 1916 Sixth Edition . . . . . . . . . . . 1919 First Published (Crown 8vo) . . . . September 14th 1911 Second Edition . . . . . . . . . . . September 1911 Third Edition . . . . . . . . . . . November 1911 TO CATHERINE PETER AND JANE CHAPTER I Mrs. Ogilvie, red-haired according to the exact shade then in fashion, and dressed by Paquin, sat in her drawing-room reading the _Court Journal_. She was a woman who thought on the lines of Aristotle, despised most other women except Charlotte Corday, Judith, Joan of Arc, and a few more, and she dyed her hair and read the _Court Journal_. People who did not know her sometimes alluded to her as an overdressed woman with a wig. Those who had met her even but once admitted the power of her personality. Perhaps if any one had known her very well he or she would have been bewildered by the many-sided complexities of her character, and would have failed to discover any sort of unity behind its surprising differences. But then, as a matter of fact, no one did know her well. Those who cared to remember such an old story used to tell how, as a girl of eighteen, she had been deeply in l
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