Saturday 17 November 2012

Wanted: a husband, a novel (1920)


Author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English

WANTED : A HUSBAND
Chapter I
OUT
OF ORDER! pertly announced the
placard on the elevator. To Miss Darcy
Cole, wavering on damp, ill-conditioned, and
reluctant legs, this seemed the final malignancy
of the mean-spirited fates. Four beetling flights
to climb! Was it worth the effort? Was anything
worth the effort of that heart-breaking
ascent? For that matter, was anything worth
anything, anyway? Into such depths of despond
had the spirit of Miss Cole lapsed.
At the top of the frowning heights the studio
apartment of Miss Gloria Greene would open to
her. There would be tea, fresh-brewed and invigorating.
There would be a broad and restful
couch full of fluffy pillows, comforting to tired
limbs. There would be Gloria Greene herself,
big and beautiful and radiant, representing
everything which poor little Darcy Cole was
not but most wished to be, and, furthermore, a
sure source of wise counsel, or, at worst, of



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