M. Andre Chevrillon, of Paris. B. Keightley,

Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law, of London.
I gratefully record the names of these friends, personally known or not known, but most truly friends in the spirit and helpers in a common cause.
But far more than to all these friends are this book and I under obligations to Mrs. Annie
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