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The Young Visiters: Or, Mr. Salteenas Plan (Classic Reprint)
The Young Visiters Or Mr Salteenas Plan - Classic Reprint Author:Daisy Ashford THE " owner of the copyright" guarantees that " The Young Visiters" is th~ unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years. "Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work. This is no portrait of a writer ... more »who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six): it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness. It needed no effort for that face to knock off a masterpiece. It probably represen t5 precisely how she looked when she finished a chapter. When she was actually at work I think the expression was more solemn, vvith the tongue firmly clenched between the teeth; an unholy rapture showing as she drew near her love 7
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAP PAGE; PREFACE BY J M BARRIE 7; 1 QUITE A YOUNG GIRL 19; 2 STARTING GAILY 22; 3 THE FIRST EVENING 29; 4 MR SALTEENAS PLAN 34; 3 THE CRYSTAL PALACE 38; 6 HIGH LIFE 49; 7 BERNARDS IDEAR 61; 8 A GAY CALL 65; 9 A PROPOSALE 72; 10 PREPARING FOR THE FRAY 78; 11 THE WEDDING 81; 12 HOW IT ENDED 84
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