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Title: Arms and the Woman
Author: Harold MacGrath
Release Date: December 19, 2005 [eBook #17359]
Language: English
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ARMS AND THE WOMAN
A Romance
by
HAROLD MacGRATH
New York Doubleday Page & Company 1905 Copyright, 1899, by S. S. Mcclure Co. Copyright, 1899, by Doubleday and Mcclure Co.
To her, that is to say, to the hand that rocked the cradle.
CHAPTER I
The first time I met her I was a reporter in the embryonic state and she was a girl in short dresses. It was in a garden, surrounded by high red brick walls which were half hidden by clusters of green vines, and at the base of which nestled earth-beds, radiant with roses and poppies and peonies and bushes of lavender lilacs, all spilling their delicate ambrosia on the mild air of passing May. I stood, straw hat in hand, wondering if I had not stumbled into some sweet prison of flowers which, having run disobedient ways in the past, had been placed here by Flora, and forever denied their native meadows and wild