[Editor's Note:--
The chapter numbering for volume 2 & 3 was changed from the original in
order to have unique chapter numbers for the complete version, so volume 2
starts with chapter XV and volume 3 starts with chapter XXX.]





SYLVIA'S LOVERS

BY

Elizabeth Gaskell

Oh for thy voice to soothe and bless!
What hope of answer, or redress?
Behind the veil! Behind the veil!--Tennyson

LONDON:

M.DCCC.LXIII.






CHAPTER I