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By his daughter,

MRS. HENDERSON.

"A lively, readable book."-Examiner.

"Lovers of gossip will peruse it with satisfaction."-Athenæum.
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Albion.

"Full of racy humour and amusing chit-chat."-Bell's Messenger.
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No library will be complete without this clever and amusing
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THE MARKED MAN.

BY FRANK TROLLOPE.

"The Marked Man' is by many degrees the best novel we have met with this season."-Bell's Messenger.

"It will be read with avidity."-Liverpool Albion.

"The best novel we have read for years."-Record.

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LOVE'S RIDDLE SOLVED BY A ROYAL SPHINX.

A TALE OF THE RESTORATION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY

GEORGE GORDON SCOTT.

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"Acerrima proximorum Odia."

"I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle light,
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use

In my old grief, and with my childhood's faith

TACITUS.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost Saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears of all my life!-and if God choose
shall but love thee better after death.""

E. B. BROWNING.

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VOL. III.

LONDON:

T. CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER,
30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

1871.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

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CLUMBER CHASE.

CHAPTER I.

THE FIRST SIGN.

IGHT months had passed since Mrs. Phillipa Broderick's death, and nine since her nephew's most mysterious disappearance, and not the slightest tidings had been heard of the latter; the outside world had even ceased to wonder, or to conjecture on the subject, and so had passed on, as is its wont, to utter oblivion about him; for it is astonishing, or rather would be so, if the fact were not as old as creation itself, by what easy and pleasant stages the said world travels swiftly away from all the misfortunes and miseries of others, and never loses its time in tarrying by the way, to read the epitaphs of defunct destinies. It has been said that love cannot exist without hope; but this, like all other rules, has its exceptions; for Dorothy had long ceased to hope, but she had by no means ceased to love. Even Oliver Hartsfoot, who had so long hoped against hope, now began to gird on his armour of resignation, but it was with a heavy heart, for his own exist

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