[Italics are indicated by underscores.]

[Transcriber's note: In one section, marked by **, two Greek letters,
delta and epsilon, are transcribed as de. The allusion is to a poem by
Browning -- 'A Grammarian's Funeral']

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Robert Elsmere

by

Mrs. Humphrey Ward

Author of "Miss Bretherton"





BOSTON:
DeWOLFE, FISKE & CO.,
365 Washington Street



Dedicated to the memory
Of
MY TWO FRIENDS