Love Stories
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Review of Reviews Co. Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction / Romance / Short Stories Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Review of Reviews Co. Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction / Romance / Short Stories Fiction / Short Stories 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 where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: "If I do," she said rather breathlessly, "will you go to sleep? And will you promise to hold your arms up over your head ?" "But my arms " "Over your head!" He obeyed at that, and the next moment she had bent over him in the darkness; and quickly, lightly, deliciously, she kissed -- the tip of his nose! She was quite cheerful the next day and entirely composed. Neither of them referred to the episode of the night before, but Billy Grant thought of little else. Early in the morning he asked her to bring him a hand mirror and, surveying his face, tortured and disfigured by the orderly's shaving, suffered an acute wound in his vanity. He was glad it had been dark or she probably would not have He borrowed a razor from the interne and proceeded to enjoy himself. Propped up in his chair, he rioted in lather, sliced a piece out of his right ear, and shaved the back of his neck by touch, in lieu of better treatment. This done, and the ragged and unkempt hair over his ears having been trimmed in scallops, due to the work being done with curved surgical scissors, he was his own man again. That afternoon, however, he was nervous and restless. The Nurse was troubled. He avoided the subject that had so obsessed him the day before, was absent and irritable, could not eat, and sat in his chair by the window, nervously clasping and u...
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