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Title: The Lost Girl

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Release Date: December 3, 2007 [eBook #23727]

Language: English

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THE LOST GIRL

by

D. H. LAWRENCE

New York
Thomas Seltzer
1921

Copyright, 1921,
by Thomas Seltzer, Inc.
All rights reserved

First Printing, February, 1921
Second Printing, February, 1921
Third Printing, September, 1921

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE DECLINE OF MANCHESTER HOUSE 7

II THE RISE OF ALVINA HOUGHTON 27

III THE MATERNITY NURSE 36

IV TWO WOMEN DIE 49

V THE BEAU 64

VI HOUGHTON'S LAST ENDEAVOUR 95

VII NATCHA-KEE-TAWARA 130

VIII CICCIO 164

IX ALVINA BECOMES ALLAYE 191

X THE FALL OF MANCHESTER HOUSE 235

XI HONOURABLE ENGAGEMENT 273

XII ALLAYE ALSO IS ENGAGED 304

XIII THE WEDDED WIFE 317

XIV THE JOURNEY ACROSS 327

XV THE PLACE CALLED CALIFANO 350

XVI SUSPENSE 359

CHAPTER I

THE DECLINE OF MANCHESTER HOUSE

Take a mining townlet like Woodhouse, with a population of ten
thousand people, and three generations behind it. This space of
three generations argues a certain well-established society. The old
"County" has fled from the sight of so much disembowelled coal, to
flourish on mineral rights in regions still idyllic. Remains one
great and inaccessible magnate, the local coal owner: three
generations old, and clambering on the bottom step of the "County,"
kicking off the mass below. Rule him out.

A well established socie