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 State"—The European Statesman Miss Corelli had in her Mind when Drawing this Character—The "King" of "Temporal Power"—Morganatic Marriages: the Novelist's Denunciation—Attempts on the Part of Book Trade Journals to Quash the Success of the Novel, and their Retractations—The Rejection of the King's Love by Lotys, Woman of the People: a Quotation     265

CHAPTER XV

SPEECHES AND LECTURES

The Novelist's First Public Speech: an Appeal for a Warwickshire Church—An Address Delivered to Stratford Working-men on "The Secret of Happiness"—Hard Work the Best Tonic in the World—The Novelist at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution—"The Vanishing Gift": an Address on the Decay of the Imagination—Art in the "Old World" Period and Art now—Imagination an Artist's First Necessary—Modern Wonders Imagined when the World was Young—The Novelist at Glasgow—An Address on "Signs of the Times" Delivered before a Huge Audience—An Allusion to the Prince of Wales and his Famous Speech at the Mansion House—"The Old Country must Wake up"—"The Advancing and Resistless Tide of Truth"—A Notable Peroration     281

CHAPTER XVI

MARIE CORELLI'S VIEWS ON MARRIAGE

The Novelist's Definition of Marriage—The Modern "Market"—"One Woman, One Man"—Marie Corelli's Exhortation to Women—"God will not be Mocked"—The Religious Instruction of Children—The Abolition of Religious Education in French Schools and its Unhappy Effect on the Country—Lionel Valliscourt: a Pathetic Example of "Cram"—And "Boy": of Parental Neglect     298