The Woman in the Bazaar

								

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THE WOMAN IN THE BAZAAR

      *      *      *      *      *      *
BY THE SAME AUTHOR



    The Happy Hunting Ground

    The Anglo-Indians

    The Charm

    Idolatry

    A Free Solitude

    The Waters of Destruction

    Red Records

    East of Suez

    Late in Life

    The Spell of the Jungle



      *      *      *      *      *      *

THE WOMAN IN THE BAZAAR
by
ALICE PERRIN
With a Frontispiece by J. Dewar Mills

Cassell and Company, Ltd
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First Published in 1914

                                CONTENTS

    CHAPTER                                                     PAGE



    1. THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .       1



    2. IN THE GARDEN   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      15



    3. SUCCESS     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      24



    4. MRS. GREAVES    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      36



    5. THE LIE     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      55



    6. THE BACHELORS' BALL     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      76



    7. TRIXIE      .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      95



    8. INDIA       .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     116



    9. DOUBT       .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     129



    10. THE RIVER      .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     143



    11. THE JUNGLE     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     163



    12. IN THE BAZAAR      .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     183



    13. THE OUTCOME    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .     202

                                  THE

                          WOMAN IN THE BAZAAR

                               CHAPTER I



                          THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER

Summer-time at Under-edge compensated, in a measure, for the trials and
severities of winter--for winter could be grim and cruel in the isolated
little Cotswold village approached by roads that were almost
perpendicular. Why such a spot should ever have been fixed upon for
human habitation seemed difficult to comprehend, save that in old and