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Bella Donna
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Title: Bella Donna A Novel
Author: Robert Hichens
Release Date: February 7, 2006 [EBook #17698]
Language: English
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BELLA DONNA
FIFTH EDITION
[Illustration]
Bella Donna
A NOVEL
By ROBERT HICHENS
Author of "The Call of The Blood," "The Fruitful Vine," "A Spirit in Prison."
A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York
Copyright, 1908 By J. B. Lippincott Company
Published October, 1908.
BELLA DONNA
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Doctor Meyer Isaacson had got on as only a modern Jew whose home is London can get on, with a rapidity that was alarming. He seemed to have arrived as a bullet arrives in a body. He was not in the heart of success, and lo! he was in the heart of success. And no one had marked his journey. Suddenly every one was speaking of him--was talking of the cures he had made, was advising every one else to go to him. For some mysterious reason his name--a name not easily to be forgotten once it had been heard--began to pervade the conversations that were held in the smart drawing-rooms of London. Women who were well, but had not seen him, abruptly became suff