INNOCENT

Her Fancy and His Fact


By MARIE CORELLI


Author of "God's Good Man," "The Treasure of Heaven," Etc.




BOOK ONE: HER FANCY




INNOCENT


BOOK ONE

CHAPTER I

The old by-road went rambling down into a dell of deep green
shadow. It was a reprobate of a road,--a vagrant of the land,--
having long ago wandered out of straight and even courses and
taken to meandering aimlessly into many ruts and furrows under
arching trees, which in wet weather poured their weight of