Studies in love and in terror

Project Gutenberg's Studies in love and in terror, by Marie Belloc Lowndes This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Studies in love and in terror Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes Release Date: September 26, 2008 [EBook #26702] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STUDIES IN LOVE AND IN TERROR *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net STUDIES IN LOVE AND IN TERROR BY MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES (Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes) Short Story Index Reprint Series BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS FREEPORT, NEW YORK First Published 1913 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PAGE Price of Admiralty 1 The Child 99 St. Catherine's Eve 131 The Woman from Purgatory 187 Why They Married 227 [3]PRICE OF ADMIRALTY "O mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps! levons l'ancre! Ce pays nous ennuie, O mort! Appareillons!" I LAIRE DE WISSANT, wife of Jacques de Wissant, Mayor of Falaise, stood in the morning sunlight, graceful with a proud, instinctive grace ofC poise and gesture, on a wind-blown path close to the edge of the cliff.