THE CORYSTON FAMILY

A NOVEL

BY

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

ILLUSTRATED BY ELIZABETH SHIPPEN GREEN

1913






TO

G.M.T. AND J.P.T.




ILLUSTRATIONS


"HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN CONCOCTING THIS, MOTHER?" _Frontispiece_

THE CONVERSATION DROPPED, JUST AS THE VOICE OF THE ORATOR ROSE TO HIS