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In preparing this volume on the Countess of Albany (which I consider as a kind of completion of my previous studies of eighteenth-century Italy), I have availed myself largely of Baron Alfred von Reumont's large work Die Gräfin von Albany (published in 1862); and of the monograph, itself partially founded on the foregoing, of M. St. René Taillandier, entitled La Comtesse d'Albany, published in Paris in 1862. Baron von Reumont's two volumes, written twenty years ago and when the generation which had come into personal contact with the Countess of Albany had not yet entirely died out; and M. St. René Taillandier's volume, which embodied the. | 1 THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY VERNON LEE CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. Countess of Albany by Violet Paget AKA Vernon Lee 2 CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. Chapters Countess of Albany by Violet Paget AKA Vernon Lee Project Gutenberg s The Countess of Albany by Violet Paget AKA Vernon Lee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Countess of Albany Author Violet Paget AKA Vernon Lee Release Date March 7 2009 EBook 28268 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration ALFIERI AND THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY From the original portrait in the possession of the Marchesa A. Alfieri de Sostegno THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY BY VERNON LEE WITH PORTRAITS LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMX SECOND EDITION Printed by BALLANTYNE AND CO. LIMITED Tavistock Street Covent Garden London Countess of Albany by Violet Paget AKA Vernon Lee TO THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND 3 MADAME JOHN MEYER I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME SO OFTEN AND SO LATELY TALKED OVER TOGETHER IN GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REGRET. PREFACE In preparing this volume on the Countess of Albany which I consider as a kind of completion of my previous studies of eighteenth-century Italy I have availed myself