The LOVE OF MONSIEUR THE LOVE OF MONSIEUR BY GEORGE GIBBS AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW DOVE, SACKCLOTH AND SCARLET, THE BOLTED DOOR, Etc. Etc. NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS GROSSET & DUNLAP COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1903, by Harper & Brothers Copyright, 1903, by J. B. Lippincott Company PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED TO M. H. G. THE “NORSE GODDESS” with all my heart and best endeavors in tender appreciation of those sympathies and encouragements which make a pleasure of labor, and life a fruition of every hope and dream CONTENTS [1]