CHAPTER I.
Bebee sprang out of bed at daybreak. She was
sixteen.
It seemed a very wonderful thing to be as much as
that—­sixteen—­a woman quite.
A cock was crowing under her ...
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If Ouida is now remembered at all, three-quarters of a century after her death, it is probably only as the author of Under Two Flags (1867). Even that small measure of fame owes something to the drama...
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Sensational, romantic, sentimental, and eccentric as her self-coined name "Ouida" would indicate, Marie Louise de la Ramée must surely have envisioned for herself a more prominent position amon...
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Bebee
Ouida