The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926
English
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The Grey Wig
Stories and Novelettes
By I. Zangwill
Author of "The Mantle of Elijah" "Children of the Ghetto" etc., etc.
1923
TO MY MOTHER AND SISTERS
THIS BOOK
Mainly a Study of Woman
IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED
PREFATORY NOTE
This Volume embraces my newest and oldest work, and includes—for thesake of uniformity of edition—a couple of shilling novelettes that areout of print.
I.Z.
Mentone,February, 1903.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
THE GREY WIG
CHASSÉ-CROISÉ
THE WOMAN BEATER
THE ETERNAL FEMININE
THE SILENT SISTERS
THE BIG BOW MYSTERY
MERELY MARY ANN
THE SERIO-COMIC GOVERNESS
THE GREY WIG
Contents
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I
They both styled themselves "Madame," but only the younger of the oldladies had been married. Madame Valière was still a demoiselle, butas she drew towards sixty it had seemed more convenable to possessa mature label. Certainly Madame Dépine had no visible matrimonialadvantages over her fellow-lodger at the Hôtel des Tourterelles,though in the symmetrical cemetery of Montparnasse (Section 22)wreaths of glass beads testified to a copious domesticity in the farpast, and a newspaper picture of a chasseur d'Afrique pinned over
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