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The Glory of the Conquered; The Story of a Great Love
The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Author:Susan Glaspell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations... more » 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 where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV FACTS AND "HIGHER TRUTH" MR. BEASON," said Georgia McCormick, looking across the dinner table at the new student who had come to live with them -- almost every one who lived around the university had " students " -- " if you had a dear cousin who had married a dear friend, if said dear cousin and dear friend had gone skipping away to Europe, and for one year and a half had flitted gayly from country to country, looking into each other's eyes and murmuring sweet nothings all the while that you had been earning your daily bread by telling daily untruths for a daily paper, if at the end of said period said cousin and friend, forced by a steadily diminishing bank account to return to the stern necessities of life, had written you a nonchalant little note telling you to ' look up a place for them to lay their heads ' -- which being translated in terms of action meant that you were to walk the streets looking for vacant houses when vacant houses there were none -- if this combination of circumstances befell you, Mr. Beason -- just what would you do?" Beason pondered the matter carefully. Mr. Beason applied the scientific method to everything in life, and was not one to commit himself rashly. " I think," he announced, weightily, " that I would tell them to go to a hotel and stay there until they could look up their own house." " But Mr. Beason," she rambled on, eyes twinkling -- Georgia had decided this young man ...« less