The Place of Honeymoons. Harold MacGrath

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066192365

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       AT THE STAGE DOOR

       CHAPTER II

       THERE IS A WOMAN?

       CHAPTER III

       THE BEAUTIFUL TIGRESS

       CHAPTER IV

       THE JOKE OF MONSIEUR

       CHAPTER V

       CAPTIVE OR RUNAWAY

       CHAPTER VI

       THE BIRD BEHIND BARS

       CHAPTER VII

       BATTLING JIMMIE

       CHAPTER VIII

       MOONLIGHT AND A PRINCE

       CHAPTER IX

       COLONEL CAXLEY-WEBSTER

       CHAPTER X

       MARGUERITES AND EMERALDS

       CHAPTER XI

       AT THE CRATER’S EDGE

       CHAPTER XII

       DICK COURTLANDT’S BOY

       CHAPTER XIII

       EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH

       CHAPTER XIV

       A COMEDY WITH MUSIC

       CHAPTER XV

       HERR ROSEN’S REGRETS

       CHAPTER XVI

       THE APPLE OF DISCORD

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE BALL AT THE VILLA

       CHAPTER XVIII

       PISTOLS FOR TWO

       CHAPTER XIX

       COURTLANDT TELLS A STORY

       CHAPTER XX

       JOURNEY’S END

CHAPTER I

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AT THE STAGE DOOR

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      Courtlandt sat perfectly straight; his ample shoulders did not touch the back of his chair; and his arms were folded tightly across his chest. The characteristic of his attitude was tenseness. The nostrils were well defined, as in one who sets the upper jaw hard upon the nether. His brown eyes—their gaze directed toward the stage whence came the voice of the prima donna—epitomized the tension, expressed the whole as in a word.

      Just now the voice was pathetically subdued, yet reached every part of the auditorium, kindling the ear with its singularly mellowing sweetness. To Courtlandt it resembled, as no other sound, the note of a muffled Burmese gong, struck in the dim incensed cavern of a temple. A СКАЧАТЬ