VERENA
IN THE MIDST
E. V. LUCAS
Other Books of E. V. LUCAS
ENTERTAINMENTS
- THE VERMILION BOX
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- MR. INGLESIDE
- OVER BEMERTON’S
- LONDON LAVENDER
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- CLOUD AND SILVER
- A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD
- TWIXT EAGLE AND DOVE
- THE PHANTOM JOURNAL
- LOITERER’S HARVEST
- ONE DAY AND ANOTHER
- FIRESIDE AND SUNSHINE
- CHARACTER AND COMEDY
- OLD LAMPS FOR NEW
TRAVEL
- A WANDERER IN VENICE
- A WANDERER IN PARIS
- A WANDERER IN LONDON
- A WANDERER IN HOLLAND
- A WANDERER IN FLORENCE
- MORE WANDERINGS IN LONDON
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BIOGRAPHY
- THE LIFE OF CHARLES LAMB
- A SWAN AND HER FRIENDS
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ANTHOLOGIES
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- A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN
- ANOTHER BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN
- RUNAWAYS AND CASTAWAYS
- FORGOTTEN STORIES OF LONG AGO
- MORE FORGOTTEN STORIES
- THE “ORIGINAL VERSES” OF ANN AND JANE TAYLOR
SELECTED WRITINGS
- A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING
- HARVEST HOME
- VARIETY LANE
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EDITED WORKS
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- THE HAUSFRAU RAMPANT
VERENA
IN THE MIDST
A KIND OF A STORY
BY
E. V. LUCAS
AUTHOR OF “THE VERMILION BOX,”
“OVER BEMERTON’S,” ETC.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
FRANCES
AND
SIDNEY
COLVIN
TO THE READER
The correspondence from which the lettersin this book have been selected passed (withthe exception of the last) during 1919. The lastis a little later.
Mr. Richard Haven, some of whose letters areto be found in a preceding volume, The VermilionBox, is still a bachelor and still lives in MillsBuildings, Knightsbridge, but is doubtful if hecan afford it much longer.
Miss Verena Raby, the centre of this epistolarycircle, is one of Mr. Haven’s oldest friends. OldPlace, the ancestral home over which she nowreigns, is near Kington in Herefordshire, on theborders of England