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Robin, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Title: Robin
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release Date: July 30, 2006 [EBook #18945]
Language: English
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ROBIN
BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
AUTHOR OF "THE SHUTTLE" "THE SECRET GARDEN" "THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF COOMBE" ETC.
NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE YEARS BEFORE
Outline Arranged by Hamilton Williamson
from
THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF COOMBE
In the years when Victorian standards and ideals began to dance an increasingly rapid jig before amazed lookers-on, who presently found themselves dancing as madly as the rest--in these years, there lived in Mayfair, in a slice of a house, Robert Gareth-Lawless and his lovely young wife. So light and airy was she to earthly vision and so diaphanous the texture of her mentality that she was known as "Feather."
The slice of a house between two comparatively stately mansions in the "right