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Hearts and Masks, by Harold MacGrath
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Title: Hearts and Masks
Author: Harold MacGrath
Release Date: December 25, 2005 [eBook #17390]
Language: English
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HEARTS AND MASKS
by
HAROLD MACGRATH
Author of The Puppet Crown, The Grey Cloak, The Man on the Box
With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher
[Frontispiece: Five people dressed for costume ball, four sitting, one standing.]
New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright 1905 The Bobbs-Merrill Company
TO MY WIFE
List of Illustrations
Five people dressed for costume ball, four sitting, one standing . . . (Frontispiece)
The handsomest girl I had set eyes upon in a month of moons.
"This is what I want. How much?" I inquired.
Turning, I beheld an exquisite Columbine.
I led her over to a secluded nook. We sat down.
And there we sat, calmly munching the apples.
"Madame,