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_Title:_ Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
_Date of first publication:_ 1911
_Author:_ Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
_Date first posted:_ Mar. 23, 2018
_Date last updated:_ Mar. 23, 2018
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TRANSCRIBER NOTES

Mis-spelled words and printer errors have =not= been fixed. This is a
reprint of the first edition in 1919, the second edition in 1935 was
significantly revised. The following are the obvious errors which were
found. Page numbers refer to the hardcover edition, not the ebook
edition.

PAGE ERROR
22 _on the tips of its ear-caps,_ should end with a period.
25 _Trèsmeschiants_ should be two words.
31 _trousers of him_ should be off.
42 _of her growth, for for most_ should only be one ‘for’.
62 _very dirty man._ should end in a comma; and the following line end
in a period not a comma.
97 _“Oh well, nipper,” he said,’_ extra single quote after comma.
97 _he remained satride of_ should be astride.
159 _bemused glance, whilst thLe ady Blanche,_ should be the Lady
Blanche.
171 _Thus, the Abbot of St. Edmunds_ should be Edmund’s.
233 _their ears upon the one s de._ should be one side.
315 _Die Mercy!_ missing closing quote.
333 _a woman with an impasssive face_ should be impassive.
344 ends a paragraph. Page 345 begins in mid-sentence.
345 last line _“There used to be a gallows here,” he said suddenly._ is
repeated on the following page 346.

Inconsistency in hyphenation has been retained.

THE WESTMINSTER LIBRARY OF FICTION

LADIES WHOSE BRIGHT EYES

BOOKS BY
FORD MADOX HUEFFER
———

The Soul of London
The Heart of the Country
The Spirit of the People
Ancient Lights and Certain New Reflections
The Fifth Queen
Privy Seal
The Fifth Queen Crowned
A Call
The Young Lovell
The Panel

_First published July 1911_
_Reprinted in Constable’s Westminster Library of Fiction, April 1919_

LADIES
WHOSE BRIGHT EYES

_A ROMANCE_

BY
FORD MADOX HUEFFER

“Towered cities please us then
And the busy haunts of men,
Where throngs of knights and barons bold
In weeds of peace high triumphs hold,
With store of ladies whose bright eyes
Rain influence and judge the prize.”
_L’Allegro._

LONDON
CONSTABLE & COMPANY
LIMITED

TO V. H.

My dear: such as it is, take this story—for it is yours. I have
worked at it harder, I think, than at any story I ever wrote,
because it was to please you. And in proportion to the hardness
of the work so I have the sense of its failure. But this I can
say—and this you know to be true—that where it is yours by
suggestion, it might scrape past, where it is mine, in the
two-stranded idea of it, it is a futility. But if it goes out
with the letters of your name upon its forehead it will give me
at least as much pleasure as, in these days and years, I can get
from the writing of books.

F. M. H.