The Benefactress
BY THE AUTHOR OF "ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN"
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1901
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1901,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Norwood Press
J. S. Gushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
Und der männlichen Begleitung.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CONCLUSION
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE BENEFACTRESS
CHAPTER I
When Anna Estcourt was twenty-five, and had begun to wonder whether thepleasure extractable from life at all counterbalanced the bother of it,a wonderful thing happened.
She was an exceedingly pretty girl, who ought to have been enjoyingherself. She had a soft, irregular face, charming eyes, dimples, apleasant laugh, and limbs that were long and slender. Certainly sheought to have been enjoying herself. Instead, she wasted her time inthat foolish pondering over the puzzles of existence, over thoseunanswerable whys and wherefores, which i