Excerpt: ...charms but hers. He understood that she was throwing out her wiles, consciously or unconsciously, to strike out from him a denial that would convince her. His mounting vanity drove away his anger. He forgot everything but her sheathed loveliness, the enticement of this lovely creature whose smoldering eyes invited. Crossing the room, he stood behind her divan and looked down at her with his hands on the back of it. "Can a man care much for two women at the same time?" he asked in a low voice. She laughed with ...
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Excerpt: ...charms but hers. He understood that she was throwing out her wiles, consciously or unconsciously, to strike out from him a denial that would convince her. His mounting vanity drove away his anger. He forgot everything but her sheathed loveliness, the enticement of this lovely creature whose smoldering eyes invited. Crossing the room, he stood behind her divan and looked down at her with his hands on the back of it. "Can a man care much for two women at the same time?" he asked in a low voice. She laughed with slow mockery. Her faint perfume was wafted to his brain. He knew a besieging of the blood. Slowly he leaned forward, holding her eyes till the mockery faded from them. Then, very deliberately, he kissed her. "How dare you!" she voiced softly in a kind of wonder not free from resentment. For with all her sensuous appeal the daughter of Joe Powers was not a woman with whom men took liberties. "By the gods, why shouldn't I dare? We played a game and both of us have lost. You were to beckon and coolly flit, while I followed safely at a distance. Do you think me a marble statue? Do you think me too wooden for the strings of my heart to pulsate? By heaven, my royal Hebe, you have blown the fire in me to life. You must pay forfeit." "Pay forfeit?" "Yes. I'm your servant no longer, but your lover and your master
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Hutchison, D.C. Fair. Two cousins, one idealistic and one corrupt, vie for political success and the hand of a lovely girl. Early reprint. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges and a ding to the lower front board. Front hinge has been internally repaired with white tape. Rear hinge has been poorly reglued with the last two pages of advertisements sliced out, one laid in and one missing. Previous owners' names on the front end papers. All plates present.
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