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”As you sayin o back a yearbut where's the use? I aland and make my bow tothe Countess of Wyncham Possibly, I shall not feel one jealous qualm One never knows

At all eventsI'll make that bow”

”You will?” Frank looked sharply down at hi more, Tracy! You do not purpose-”

”Nothing more You see, FrankI love her”

”I crave your pardon Yesshe would not take you, but she has, I think, made you As I once told you, when love caht, and her happiness as everything”

For a moment his Grace was silent, and then back came the old smile, still cynical, yet with less of the sneer in it

”How very pleasant it must be, Frank, to have one's prophecies so happily verified!” he purred ”Allow me to felicitate you!”

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Jack Carstares says, ”I was born in King George the First's reign,” ie between 1714 and 1727 Partway through the novel, he tells Miss Betty that he is thirty His younger brother dick is apparently twenty-nine, very close in age We also learn that Jack went on the Grand Tour about seven years before, after finishi+ng at Oxford, and that the scandal that dishonoured him occurred six years before The story, then, occurs somewhere between 1744 and 1757

Lady Lavinia, in a letter at the end of the book, allows us to place it more precisely She writes ”Twill interest you to hear that Miss Gunning is to marry Coventry 'Tis all over Town this last Week” The young Irish sisters Maria and Elizabeth Gunning arrived in London in 1751 and captivated the town for the next six ed and married to the Earl of Coventry in 1752 So the book is set during the period 1751-1752

For the amusement of the reader, this online edition of The Black Moth has been enhanced by the addition of illustrations of 18th Century costuraphs are frolish Costumes: Selected from the Collection formed by Mr

Talbot Hughes, c 1908 The color plate is taken frolish Costume Painted and Described by Dion Clayton Calthrop, London: A & C Black, Ltd, 1907

One or two spelling errors have been corrected; otherwise the text is taken from the 1921 American edition, which is in the public domain in the United States of America

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