The Rescue
The Rescue
BY
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
AUTHOR OF “THE CONFOUNDING OF CAMELIA”
“THE DULL MISS ARCHINARD”
NEW YORK
The Century Co.
1902
Copyright, 1901, 1902, by
THE CENTURY CO.
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Published May, 1902
THE DEVINNE PRESS.
TO
G. S. S.
AND
M. D. S.
Chapter: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.
T H E R E S C U E
I
USTACE DAMIER bent his long, melancholy profile overthe photograph-album. It was an old-fashioned album; its faded moroccocover, its gilt clasp loosened with age, went with the quietold-fashioned little room, that had no intentions, made no efforts, andyet was full of meaning, with the charm of an epoch near enough to beeasily understood, yet with a grace and a pathos in its modern antiquitydeeper than that possessed by a more romantic remoteness. It was thesort of little drawing-room where one’s mother might have accepted one’sfather: one could not quite see one’s present in it, but one saw a nearand a dear past. The gray wall-paper with its flecked gold flower, thecurved lines of the sedately o