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THE MERMAID


         "Lady, I fain would tell how evermore
         Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor
     Thee from myself, neither our love from God."


A Love Tale

by

L. DOUGALL

Author of Beggars All, What Necessity Knows, Etc.







New York
D. Appleton and Company
1895
Copyright, 1895,
by D. Appleton and Company.




CONTENTS.


BOOK I.

CHAPTER                                           PAGE

    I.--THE BENT TWIG                                1

   II.--THE SAD-EYED CHILD                           4

  III.--LOST IN THE SEA                             11

   IV.