Prologue
Prologue - Chapter 1
_ PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I

"The little more, and how much it is!
The little less, and what worlds away."
--Browning.

No one in Zermatt dreamed that a wedding had been solemnised in the English church on that September afternoon of the early eighties. Tourists and townsfolk alike had been cheated of a legitimate thrill of interest and speculation. Nor would even the most percipient have recognised as bride and bridegroom the tall dark Englishman, in a rough shooting suit, and the girl, in simple white travelling gear, who stood together, an hour later, on the outskirts of the little town, and took leave of their solitary wedding guest:--an artist cap-a-pie； velveteen coat, loosely knotted tie, and soft felt hat complete.
In this Bohemian garb Michael Maurice,--as the bride‘s brother,--had led his sister up the aisle, and duly surrendered her to Captain Lenox, R.A., serenely unaware, the while, of censori

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