[Transcriber's note: Part III contains two chapters labeled Chapter VI.]

MIRIAM MONFORT:

_A NOVEL_.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"THE HOUSEHOLD OF BOUVERIE."

"Fancy, _with_ fact, is just one fact the more."

"Let this old woe step on the stage again,
Act itself o'er anew for men to judge;
Not by the very sense and sight indeed,
Which take at best imperfect cognizance.
Since, how heart moves brain, and how both move hand,
What mortal ever in entirety saw?
Yet helping us to all we seem to hear,
For, how else know we save by worth of word?"

BROWNING, "_The Ring and the Book_"

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
549 & 551 BROADWAY.
1873.

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