Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree

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Bates Arlo. Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree

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

Отрывок из книги

While Mrs. Harbinger was receiving from May Calthorpe the disjointed confession of that young woman's rashness, her husband, Tom Harbinger, was having a rather confused interview with a client in his down-town office. The client was a middle-aged man, with bushy, sandy hair, and an expression of invincible simplicity not unmixed with obstinacy. Tom was evidently puzzled how to take his client or what to do with him. He had, as they talked, the air of being uncertain whether Mr. Barnstable was in earnest, and of not knowing how far to treat him seriously.

"But why do you come to me?" he asked at length, looking at his client as one regards a prize rebus. "Of course 'Love in a Cloud,' like any other book, has a publisher. Why don't you go there to find out who wrote it?"

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He paused in evident confusion.

"Of doing something?" repeated Harbinger.

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