Love in a Cloud

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Bates Arlo. Love in a Cloud

Love in a Cloud

Table of Contents

I

THE MISCHIEF OF A MAID

II

THE MADNESS OF A MAN

III

THE BABBLE OF A TEA

IV

THE TICKLING OF AN AUTHOR

V

THE BLAZING OF RANK

VI

THE MISCHIEF OF A WIDOW

VII

THE COUNSEL OF A MOTHER

VIII

THE TEST OF LOVE

IX

THE MISCHIEF OF A GENTLEMAN

X

THE BUSINESS OF A CLUBMAN

XI

THE GAME OF CROSS-PURPOSES

XII

THE WASTING OF REQUESTS

XIII

THE WILE OF A WOMAN

XIV

THE CONCEALING OF SECRETS

XV

THE MISCHIEF OF A LETTER

XVI

THE DUTY OF A SON

XVII

THE BUSINESS OF A LOVER

XVIII

THE MISCHIEF OF MEN

XIX

THE CRUELTY OF LOVE

XX

THE FAITHFULNESS OF A FRIEND

XXI

THE MISCHIEF OF A FIANCÉ

XXII

THE COOING OF TURTLE-DOVES

XXIII

THE BUSINESS OF A MUSE

XXIV

THE MISCHIEF OF A CAD

XXV

THE WAKING OF A SPINSTER

XXVI

THE WOOING OF A WIDOW

XXVII

THE CLIMAX OF COMEDY

XXVIII

THE UNCLOUDING OF LOVE

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The entrance of Mrs. Croydon into Mrs. Harbinger's drawing-room was accompanied by a rustling of stuffs, a fluttering of ribbons, and a nodding of plumes most wonderful to ear and eye. The lady was of a complexion so striking that the redness of her cheeks first impressed the beholder, even amid all the surrounding luxuriance of her toilet. Her eyes were large and round, and of a very light blue, offering to friend or foe the opportunity of comparing them to turquoise or blue china, and so prominent as to exercise on the sensitive stranger the fascination of a deformity from which it seems impossible to keep the glance. Mrs. Croydon was rather short, rather broad, extremely consequential, and evidently making always a supreme effort not to be overpowered by her overwhelming clothes. She came in now like a yacht decorated for a naval parade, and moving before a slow breeze.

Mrs. Harbinger advanced a step to meet her guest, greeting the new-comer in words somewhat warmer than the tone in which they were spoken.

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