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[Illustration: "He pressed the handsome chalked hand in his own and
then to his lips in a very un-English way."]



FAIR MARGARET


_A PORTRAIT_



By

F. MARION CRAWFORD

AUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "SANT' ILARIO," "WHOSOEVER
SHALL OFFEND," ETC., ETC.


_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HORACE T. CARPENTER_



NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1905,
BY F. MARION CRAWFORD.

COPYRIGHT, 1905,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1905. Reprinted
November, December, 1905; April, 1906; July, September, 1908;
July, 1909; February, twice, 1910.

_Thirty-seventh Thousand_

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




FAIR MARGARET




CHAPTER I


'I am a realist,' said Mr. Edmund Lushington, as if that explained
every