My cordial thanks are due—and given—to the Editor of the _Cornhill Magazine_, within whose pages some of these “Memories” have from time to time appeared, for permission to republish them in this form. Also to the Editor of the _Boudoir_, where my “Girls—Old and New” made their _début_ last season. Almost the first thing I can remember is listening with fascinated interest to an old gipsy woman, who insisted on telling my fortune one summer afternoon on Cannock Chase long, long ago. I was very reluctant to undergo what seemed to me a terrible ordeal, but I was encouraged to do so by my nurse, to whom she had just promised “a knight riding over a plain.” However, my Sibyl only touched on two…
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