HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

 

 The High Heart

The High Heart

Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published September, 1917

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

I've Been Thinking a Good Deal During the Past Few Weeks of Your Law of Right

The Marriage She Had Missed Was on Her Mind. It Created an Obsession or a Broken Heart, I Wasn't Quite Sure Which

I Saw a Man and a Woman Consumed with Longing for Each Other

I've Had Great Trials . . . I've Always Been Misjudged. . . . They've Put Me Down as Hard and Proud

 

THE HIGH HEART

 

CHAPTER I

I could not have lived in the Brokenshire circle for nearly a year without recognizing the fact that in the eyes of his family J. Howard, as he was commonly called by the world, was the Great Dispenser; but my first intimation that he meant to act in that capacity toward me came from Larry Strangways, on a bright July morning during the summer of 1913, when we were at Newport.

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I was crossing the lawn, going toward the sea, with little Gladys Rossiter, to whom I acted as companion in the 

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