ADRIENNE TONER
ADRIENNE TONER
A Novel
BY
ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
(Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt)
AUTHOR OF “CHRISTMAS ROSES, AND OTHER STORIES,” “TANTE”
“FRANKLIN KANE,” “THE ENCOUNTER,” ETC.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ANNE DOUGLAS DE SÉLINCOURT
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
THIRD IMPRESSION, MAY, 1922
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U . S . A.
PART I
CHAPTER: I, II,
III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV,
PART II
CHAPTER: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX
ADRIENNE TONER
PART I
CHAPTER I
“COME down to Coldbrooks next week-end, will you, Roger?” said BarneyChadwick. He had been wandering around the room, pausing once to glanceat the César Franck on the piano and once at the window to look down atthe Thames, and his voice now, though desultory in intention, betrayedto his friend preoccupation and even anxiety. “There is going to be aninteresting girl with us: American; very orig