BY M. E. COLERIDGE AUTHOR OF THE KING WITH TWO FACES,' 'NON SEquitur,' etc. 'L'histoire passe si vite!' ALEXANDRE DUMAS PÈRE LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. STX PR 6005 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. All rights reserved TROW DIRECTORY WRITERS of historic fictions are, for the most part, thieves. Many of the following pages have been stolen from Armand de St.-Imbert, some from Louis Blanc, a few from the Memoirs of Alexandre Dumas.' The chapter called 'Maison Botherel' was composed -almost every word of it-many years ago, by Lamartine, Feydeau, and Théophile Gautier. |