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_Title:_ Ribbons and Laces
_Date of first publication:_ 1924
_Author:_ Ruby Mildred Ayres (1883-1955)
_Date first posted:_ Sep. 23, 2014
_Date last updated:_ Sep. 23, 2014
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_Ribbons and Laces_

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_ N O V E L S A N D S T O R I E S B Y _
RUBY M. AYRES

THE LUCKIEST LADY
THE PLANTER OF THE TREE
WYNNE OF WINDWHISTLE
THE MAN THE WOMEN LOVED
SPOILT MUSIC
CHARITY’S CHOSEN
THE FAINT HEART
OVERHEARD
THE MARRIAGE HANDICAP
CANDLELIGHT
THE ROMANCE OF A ROGUE
RIBBONS AND LACES
THE ONE WHO STOOD BY
THE EAGER SEARCH
THE YEAR AFTER
THE STREET BELOW
THE MATHERSON MARRIAGE
THE LITTLE LADY IN LODGINGS
THE MAN WITHOUT A HEART
A GAMBLE WITH LOVE
PAUL IN POSSESSION
THE SCAR
THE DANCING MASTER
THE FORTUNE HUNTER
THE LOVER WHO LIED
NOBODY’S LOVER
THE MARRIAGE OF BARRY WICKLOW
THE STORY OF AN UGLY MAN
RICHARD CHATTERTON, V.C.
LOVE AND A LIE
THE BLACK SHEEP
THE UPHILL ROAD
THE LITTL’ST LOVER
THE SECOND HONEYMOON
THE WINDS OF THE WORLD
FOR LOVE
PAPER ROSES
THE REMEMBERED KISS
INVALIDED OUT
THE PHANTOM LOVER
THE BEGGAR MAN
THE MASTER MAN
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
A MAN OF HIS WORD
THE LONG LANE TO HAPPINESS
THE WOMAN HATER
THE ONE WHO FORGOT
A BACHELOR HUSBAND
THE HIGHEST BIDDER
BROWN SUGAR
THE ONE WHO LIED

_HODDER & STOUGHTON, LIMITED_
_PUBLISHERS, LONDON, E.C. 4_

RIBBONS
AND LACES

BY

RUBY M. AYRES

[Illustration]

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

LIMITED LONDON

_Made and Printed in Great Britain by_
_Wyman & Sons, Ltd., London, Fakenham and Reading._

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