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                               MRS. AMES

                                  BY

                             E. F. BENSON

                               AUTHOR OF
              “DODO,” “THE ANGEL OF PAIN,” “THE CLIMBER,”
                       “JUGGERNAUT,” ETC., ETC.

                                TORONTO
                    THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY LIMITED
                      LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON

                     RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
               BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET. S. F.,
                         AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.




CHAPTER I


Certainly the breakfast tongue, which was for the first time that
morning, was not of the pleasant reddish hue which Mrs. Altham was
justified in expecting considering that the delicacy in question was not
an ordinary tinned tongue (you had 