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THE ROMANCISTS
GEORGE SAND
THE DEVIL'S POOL
[Illustration: Chapter V
_He saw my little Marie watching her three sheep on the common land_. ]
BIBLIOTHEQUE DES CHEFS-D'OEUVRE
DU ROMAN CONTEMPORAIN
_THE DEVIL'S POOL_
GEORGE SAND
PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY BY GEORGE BARRIE & SONS, Philadelphia
COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY GEORGE BARRIE & SON
THIS EDITION OF
THE DEVIL'S POOL
HAS BEEN COMPLETELY TRANSLATED
BY
GEORGE B. IVES
THE ETCHINGS AND DRAWINGS ARE BY
EDMOND RUDAUX
NOTICE
When I began, with _The Devil's Pool_, a series of rustic pictures which
I proposed to collect under the title of _The Hemp-Beater's Tales_, I
had no theory, no purpose to effect a revolution in literature. No one
can bring about a revolution by himself alone, and there are
revolutions, especially in matters of art, which mankind accomplishes
without any very clear idea how it is done, because everybody takes a
hand in them. But this is not applicable to the romance of rustic
manners: it has existed in all ages and under all forms, sometimes
pompous, sometimes affected, sometimes artless. I have said, and I say
again here: the dream of a country-life has always been the ideal of
cities, aye, and of courts.
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