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Jane Oglander
By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
"Something even more imperious than reason admonishes us thatlife's inmost secret lies not in the slow adaptation of man tocircumstance, but in his costly victories and splendid defeats."
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1911
Copyright, 1911, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published April, 1911
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
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
JANE OGLANDER
PROLOGUE
Pour les consoler un peu d'un monde impur."
Jane Oglander was walking across Westminster Bridge on a late Septemberday.
It was a little after four o'clock—on the bridge perhaps the quietesttime of the working day—but a ceaseless stream of human beings ebbed toand fro. She herself came from the Surrey side of the river, and now andagain she stayed her steps and looked over the parapet. It was plain—orso thought one who was looking at her very attentively—that she wasmore interes