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Title: A Great Success
Author: Mrs Humphry Ward
Release Date: August 25, 2004 [EBook #13288]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "Look there, Doris--you see that path? Let's go on to the moor a little."]
A Great Success
By
Mrs. Humphry Ward Author of "Eltham House," "Delia Blanchflower," etc.
New York Hearst's International Library Co. 1916
CHAPTER I
">PART I
CHAPTER I
"Arthur,--what did you give the man?"
"Half a crown, my dear! Now don't make a fuss. I know exactly what you're going to say!"
"_Half a crown!_" said Doris Meadows, in consternation. "The fare was one and twopence. Of course he thought you mad. But I'll get it back!"
And she ran to the open window, crying "Hi!" to the driver of a taxi-cab, who, having put down his fares, was just on the point of starting from the door of the small semi-detached house in a South Kensington street, which owned Arthur and Doris Meadows for its master and mistress.
The driver turned at her call.
"Hi!--Stop! You've been over-pai