Chapter I: Front Matter

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AUTUMN GLORY

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Jarrold & Sons'

New Six-Shilling Fiction.

By MAURUS JOKAI.

_Halil the Pedlar._

(The White Rose.)

By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI.

_Tales From Tolstoi._

Translated from the Russian by R. NISBET
BAIN, and with Biography of the Author.

By the Author of "ANIMA VILIS."

_Distaff._

By MARYA RODZIEWICZ.

Translated from the Polish by COUNT STANISLAUS
C. DE SOISSONS.

By RENE BAZIN.

_Autumn Glory._

Translated by MRS. ELLEN WAUGH.

By the Author of

"DUKE RODNEY'S SECRET."

_Ivy Cardew._

By PERRINGTON PRIMM.

By HULBERT FULLER.

_God's Rebel._

By MARTHA BAKER DUNN.

_Memory Street._

London:
JARROLD & SONS,
Publishers,
10 & 11, Warwick Lane,
E.C.

At the Libraries.
And of all Booksellers.

* * * * *

AUTUMN GLORY

Or

The Toilers of the Field

by

RENE BAZIN

Author of "A Blot of Ink," etc.

Translated by Mrs. Ellen Waugh

With Photogravure Portrait of the Author

SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE

Authorised Edition

London Jarrold & Sons All Rights Reserved 10 & 11, Warwick Lane, E.C. 1901

Translated from the French, "La Terre qui Meurt," by Mrs. Ellen Waugh.

Copyright London: Jarrold & Sons

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. LA FROMENTIERE 7

II. THE FAMILY LUMINEAU 24

III. THE DWARF ORCHARD 48

IV. THE MICHELONNES 65

V. PLOUGHING IN SEPTEMBER 77

VI. THE APPEAL TO THE MASTER 102

VII. DRIOT'S RETURN 116

VIII. IN THE PLACE DE L'EGLISE 133

IX. THE CONSCRIPTS OF SALLERTAINE 147

X. THE UPROOTED VINEYARD 158

XI. THE DANCE AT LA SEULIERE 178

XII. ROUSILLE'S LOVE DREAM 196

XIII. THE AUCTION 208

XIV. DWELLERS IN TOWNS 240

XV. THE EMIGRANT 255

XVI. HER FATHER'S BIDDING 264

XVII. A FEBRUARY NIGHT 274

XVIII. SPRINGTIDE 289

AUTUMN GLORY.