Daphne in Fitzroy Street

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Daphne in Fitzroy Street (1909)
by E. Nesbit

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(Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes) Arguably, Nesbit's most autobiographical tale. An adult romance.

French men of science tell us that love is a microbe, a bacillus, like the busy little beasts who bring us small-pox and typhoid and consumption and all other ill things. It is a comfortable theory, and explains much. . . . But being for the first time in the Presence of the disease, he could not diagnose it. He said, “I am interested”—and flattered himself on his scientific attitude. Whereas he should have said, “I am in love,” and abased himself before the commonest of all disorders.

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DAPHNE
IN FITZROY STREET

BY

E. NESBIT

Frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes

TORONTO
The Munsell Book Company Limited
1909

TO HORACE MUNSELL
FROM E. NESBIT

The longest-living author of this work died in 1924, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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