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Cinderella
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Title: Cinderella And Other Stories
Author: Richard Harding Davis
Release Date: July 16, 2005 [EBook #16310]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "He looked beyond, through the dying fire, into the succeeding years."]
CINDERELLA
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1896
_Copyright, 1896,_
By Charles Scribner's Sons.
*** _The stories in this volume have appeared in Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Weekly, and Young People; and "The Reporter who Made Himself King" also in a volume, the rest of which, however, addressed itself to younger readers._
University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
Page Cinderella 1 Miss Delamar's Understudy 36 The Editor's Story 76 An Assisted Emigrant 105 The Reporter who Made Himself King 119
CINDERELLA
The servants of the Hotel Salisbury, which is so called because it is situated on Broadway and conducted on the American plan by a man named Riggs, had agreed upon a date for their annual ball and volunteer concert, and had announced that it would eclipse every other annual ball in the history of the h