The Chorus Lady Author:James Forbes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: G. W. Dillingham Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. In the spacious living-room of the trainer's house, which served the purpose of kitchen and dining-room, the Duke and his enemy, the Shrimp, sat at the table disposing, with ravenous appetite, of the good things provided for the first repast of the day by Mrs. O'Brien. Nora, still excited and jubilant, was serving them, and as she flitted lightly about from dresser to stove and from stove to table she cast complacent glances at herself whenever she passed a small mirror that hung on the wall. The Duke followed her movements with sheepish, adoring eyes. The Shrimp bent sullenly over his plate, intent only on what was upon it. "Might I trouble you for a little more of that 'ash, Miss Nora?" asked her admirer, with about the deference with which he would have addressed the Queen of England. "No, you might not," snapped Nora. "And you needn't make googoo eyes at me, either. I have no use for you any more." "I ain't to blyme; I couldn't 'elp it," pleaded the boy, who cared nothing about a further helping of hash, but did care a very great deal to retain Nora's good graces. "I'm sure it was your fault, and I'll never speak to you again for getting me into this trouble," the girl insisted. "Hindeed it wusn't," he assured her humbly. "As I've already explyned, Shrimp, 'ere, on Ginger crowded me into the deep-goin' on the ry'ls, an' Lydy Belle didn't like it." "It's a lie!" shouted the Shrimp fiercely. "It was a fair race, an' I wants me money." "Then you'll have to wait for it," said Nora decisively. "I needs the coin," an' I won't stand for no...« less