E-text prepared by David Edwards, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com) THE OLD MAIDS' CLUB THE OLD MAIDS' CLUB OLD MAIDS' CLUB BY I. ZANGWILL AUTHOR OF "THE BACHELOR'S CLUB," "THE BIG BOW MYSTERY," ETC. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. H. TOWNSEND NEW YORK TAIT, SONS & COMPANY Union Square Union Square Copyright, 1892, Copyright, 1892, by by