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Cheerful - By Request
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Title: Cheerful--By Request
Author: Edna Ferber
Release Date: March 1, 2004 [EBook #11395]
Language: English
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CHEERFUL BY REQUEST
By
EDNA FERBER
AUTHOR OF "DAWN O'HARA," "BUTTERED SIDE DOWN" "ROAST BEEF MEDIUM," "FANNY HERSELF"
1918
CHAPTER I.
CHEERFUL--BY REQUEST II. THE GAY OLD DOG III. THE TOUGH GUY IV. THE ELDEST V. THAT'S MARRIAGE VI. THE WOMAN WHO TRIED TO BE GOOD VII. THE GIRL WHO WENT RIGHT VIII. THE HOOKER-UP-THE-BACK IX. THE GUIDING MISS GOWD X. SOPHY-AS-SHE-MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN XI. THE THREE OF THEM XII. SHORE LEAVE
CHEERFUL--BY REQUEST
I
CHEERFUL--BY REQUEST
The editor paid for the lunch (as editors do). He lighted his seventh cigarette and leaned back. The conversation, which had zigzagged from the war to Zuloaga, and from Rasputin the Monk to the number of miles a Darrow would go on a gallon, narrowed down to the thin, straight line of business.
"Now don't misunderstand. Please! We're not presuming to dictate. Dear me, no! We ha