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Title: The heel of Achilles

Author: E. M. Delafield

Release date: April 7, 2024 [eBook #73352]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The MacMillan Company, 1921

Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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THE HEEL OF ACHILLES

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO

DALLAS · ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA

MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

THE

HEEL OF ACHILLES

BY

E. M. DELAFIELD

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1921

All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1921,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and printed. Published June, 1921.

Press of

J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.

To YOÉ: my sister, and always

my greatest friend.

“Provinces twain o’er the land held sway, and the country was ruled by twain,

I made the laws, as King, but you, as Premier, revoked them again.