MADAME FLIRT


A ROMANCE OF
"THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"

BY

CHARLES E. PEARCE

_"Why how now Madam Flirt"--Lucy._


AUTHOR OF

"STIRRING DEEDS IN THE GREAT WAR," "A QUEEN OF THE PADDOCK,"
"CORINTHIAN JACK," ETC.

LONDON
STANLEY PAUL & CO.
31, ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.2.

_Printed in Great Britain at the Athenæum Printing Works, Redhill_

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1922.




CHAPTER I