SCARLET AND HYSSOP
By E. F. BENSON.
Scarlet and Hyssop.
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The Luck of the Vails.
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D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
SCARLET and HYSSOP
A NOVEL
By E. F. BENSON
AUTHOR OF DODO
MAMMON & CO.
THE LUCK
OF THE
VAILS
ETC.
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1902
Copyright, 1902
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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 |
| EPILOGUE |
CHAPTER I
It has been ordained by the wisdom of Nature that the same fact shallstrike the majority of her foolish children almost simultaneously. Thisphenomenon can hardly have escaped the most casual observer; themajority of swallows, for instance, in any given area will agree,practically in the same week, that our English autumn is no longertolerable, and with consenting twitterings set their heads southwards;or in the spring, again, one may observe that in any given field daisiesand buttercups will determine, only to be nipped by unpunctual frosts,that it i