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Balloons
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Title: Balloons
Author: Elizabeth Bibesco
Release Date: February 23, 2005 [EBook #15156]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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BALLOONS
BY
ELIZABETH BIBESCO
Author of "I Have Only Myself to Blame," etc.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
1922
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
PAGE I HAVEN 9 To Clarence Day, Jr.
II TWO PARIS EPISODES 21 To Anthony Asquith I: THE STORY OF A COAT II: BALLOONS
III COURTSHIP 27
IV "DO YOU REMEMBER...?" 29 To Leslie Hartley
V THE MARTYR 37 To H.G. Wells
VI A MOTOR 53 To Alice Longworth
VII THE MASTERPIECE 60 To Harold Child
VIII TEA TIME 67 To Sylvester Gates
IX THE END 78
X MISUNDERSTOOD 83 To John Maynard Keynes
XI COUNTERPOINT 92 To the Marchese Giovanni Visconti Venosta
XII VILLEGIATURA 102 To Marcel Proust
XIII AULD LANG SYNE 132 To Harold Nicolson
XIV TWO TAXI DRIVES 147 To Paul Morand I: SUNSHINE II: LAMPS
XV A TOUCH OF SPRING 155 To W.Y. Turner