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The Beauty and the Bolshevist
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Title: The Beauty and the Bolshevist
Author: Alice Duer Miller
Release Date: August 9, 2004 [EBook #13146] [Date last updated: October 5, 2004]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "I beg your pardon. Is this a private raft?"]
THE BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIST
By ALICE DUER MILLER Author of "_ The Charm School_" "_Ladies must Live_" "_Come out of the Kitchen_" etc.
Illustrated
1920
ILLUSTRATIONS
"I beg your pardon. Is this a private raft?" "Mr. Moreton, the Newport boat leaves at five-thirty" "I'll be there in five minutes, in a little blue car" "Suppose you find you do hate being poor?"
THE BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIST
CHAPTER I
The editor of that much-abused New York daily, Liberty, pushed back his editorial typewriter and opened one letter in the pile which the office-boy--no respecter of persons--had just laid upon the desk while whistling a piercing tune between his teeth.
The letter said:
DEAR BEN,--I hate to think what your feelings will be on learning that I am engaged to be married to a daughter of the capitali