This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...real and I" Her face was half turned from him. "No, no!" she said. "I love you!" he ended. "I love you!" He stopped for sheer lack of breath. She faced him squarely again, her lips firm. "How can you say that?" she asked. He thought he scented victory. He was all sincerity; but the apparent approach of triumph regained ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...real and I" Her face was half turned from him. "No, no!" she said. "I love you!" he ended. "I love you!" He stopped for sheer lack of breath. She faced him squarely again, her lips firm. "How can you say that?" she asked. He thought he scented victory. He was all sincerity; but the apparent approach of triumph regained for him something of his old manner. "I've no right to say it," he confessed, "but it takes courage for a chap who's done what I've done to say anything, and when he's in love even a coward is heroic." "You are very silly, anyhow." "Why not? Reason flies out at the window when love comes in at the door." She would not trifle. "And I am only a girl," she continued. "You are the most wonderful woman in the world," he answered. "Try me. I know I'm not much. But I shall expect only a little of you--only a very little." It's not that, but you want nothing but happiness in life; and when you come to think about it, there are few baser desires than the desire for happiness." His victory seemed not so certain, after all. "You judge me by my talk," he pleaded. "Don't do that. I know my talk is just whipped cream: nothing to set your intellectual teeth in." "It is something deeper than your talk. You "Anything you please," he acknowledged; "but I love you." She shook her head. The victory receded. "It won't do? " he asked in an altered voice. "No," she said, "it won't do." Her eyes met his. "Don't you see?" "I see that of course you care nothing for me." "Of course I don't." She spoke simply. "Not in the way you mean." &q...
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Fine. First edition. Slight scuff on the front board, still fine, lacking the dustwrapper. The author's own copy, with his ownership Signature. The second of the author's four novels about the degradations of modern American society, this one about the unrealistic and tyrannical sexual mores imposed on young people, derived ultimately from the economic system. From a large collection of books we recently purchased from his library. Kauffman was born and lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, although he also maintained homes in Switzerland and Bath, Maine. After graduating from Harvard in 1900, he wrote dozens of stories, mysteries, children's books, and non-fiction titles. He was the editor of the Bangor, Maine *Daily News* from 1941-1947. His novel, *The House of Bondage* was widely praised, specifically by Emma Goldman, as the first serious attempt to explore the problem of women and prostitution. A scarce title.
