LADY WILLIAM
BY
MRS. OLIPHANT
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1894
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First Edition (3 Vols. Crown 8vo) January 1894
Reprinted February 1894
Second Edition (1 Vol. Crown 8vo) May 1894
The village of Watcham is not a village in the ordinary sense of theword, and yet it is a very pretty place, with a charming picturesqueaspect, and of which people say, ‘What a pretty village!’ when they comeupon its little landing-place on the riverside, or drive through itsold-fashioned green, where some of the surrounding houses look as ifthey had come out of the seventeenth century, and some as if they hadcome out of the picture-books of Mr. Randolph Caldecott. It is a villageof genteel little houses where a great