Emmy Lou

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[Illustration: "She took up her verse where William had interrupted."]

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EMMY LOU

HER BOOK &HEART

By

GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN

And Illustrated By

CHARLES LOUIS HINTON

"My Book and Heart Must Never Part."

-New England Primer

GROSSET &DUNLAP

Publishers-New York

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Copyright, 1901, 1902, by

S. S. McClure Co.

Copyright, 1902, by

McCLURE, PHILLIPS &CO.

Fifteenth Impression

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To My Sister

THE AUNT CORDELIA

of these stories, this

book is

affectionately inscribed

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CONTENTS

PAGE

The Right Promethean Fire 1

A Little Feminine Casabianca 29

Hare-and-Tortoise or the Bliss of Ignorance 49

"I Sing of Honour and the Faithful Heart" 81

The Play's the Thing 113

The Shadow of a Tragedy 135

All the Winds of Doctrine 165

The Confines of Consistency 193

A Ballad in Print o' Life 225

Venus or Minerva? 247

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