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“Think What It Is to Act When One Feels It.”
THE JUGGLERS
A Story
BY
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
WITH A FRONTISPIECE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
Dramatic and all other rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1911.
Dramatic and all other rights reserved.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO
NELLIE AND ISABEL
WHO HAVE A GENIUS FOR FRIENDSHIP
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I. | Diane, the Dreamer | 1 |
II. | The Marquis Egmont of the Holy Angels | 31 |
III. | The Splendid Events that Happened at Bienville | 65 |
IV. | The Bridal Veil | 95 |
V. | The Deluge | 122 |
VI. | The Day of Glory has Arrived | 158 |
The lazy blue river and the wide, brownplains of Picardy lay basking in the still splendorof the November afternoon. The mysterioushush of the autumn lay upon the fields and thefarmsteads. A flock of herons in a near-bymarsh meditated gravely, standing one-legged,and watching the cows kneed