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that he could be so "ugly." _That_ would not have been reckoned among his glories in the Yellow Book-room; but the wheel shall come full circle--we shall be saying all this, one day, the other way round. For, as Browning consoles, encourages, and warns us by showing in _Fifine_,[x:1] each age believes--and should believe--that to it alone the secret of true art has been whispered.
ETHEL COLBURN MAYNE.
FOOTNOTES:
[x:1] I write far from my books, but the passage will be easily found or recalled.
11 HOLLAND ROAD,?KENSINGTON, W.
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CONTENTS
PART I
GIRLHOOD
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY 3

I. THE GIRL IN "COUNT GISMOND" 15
II. PIPPA PASSES
I. Dawn: Pippa 23
II. Morning: Ottima 36
III. Noon: Phene 51
IV. Evening; Night: The Ending of the Day 67
III. MILDRED TRESHAM 81
IV. BALAUSTION 93
V. POMPILIA 122
PART II
THE GREAT LADY
"MY LAST DUCHESS," AND "THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS" 165
PART III
THE LOVER
I. LOVERS MEETING 199
II. TROUBLE OF LOVE: THE WOMAN'S
I. The Lady in "The Glove" 215 II. D?s Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron De Nos Jours 224
III. The Laboratory 233
IV. In a Year 237
PART IV
THE WIFE
I. A WOMAN'S LAST WORD 245
II. JAMES LEE'S WIFE 250
I. She Speaks at the Window 254
II. By the Fireside 256
III. In the Doorway 257
IV. Along the Beach 258
V. On the Cliff 261
VI. Reading a Book, under the Cliff 262
VII. Among the Rocks