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CYNTHIA

LEONARD MERRICK

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

MAURICE HEWLETT

NEW YORK

E.P. DUTTON AND COMPANY

INTRODUCTION

MAURICE HEWLETT.

Two friends were sitting together outside the Caf? des Tribunaux at Dieppe. One of them was falling in love; the other, an untidy and morose little man, was wasting advice. It was the hour of coffee and liqueurs, on an August evening.

"Why?" said Humphrey Kent.

"'Why'! Are you serious? Because your income is an unknown quantity. Because you've had a literary success, not a popular one. Because, if you keep single, you've a comfortable life in front of you. Because you'd be a damned fool."

"The climax is comprehensive, if it isn't convincing. But the discussion is a trifle 'previous,' eh? I can't marry you, my pretty maid, et cetera."

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