Women

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Booth Tarkington. Women

Women

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PREAMBLE

I. MRS. DODGE AND MRS. CROMWELL

II. A LADY ACROSS THE STREET

III. PERVERSITY OF A TELEPHONE

IV. A GREAT MAN’S WIFE

V. ONE OF MRS. CROMWELL’S DAUGHTERS

VI. SALLIE EALING

VII. NAPOLEON WAS A LITTLE MAN

VIII. MRS. DODGE’S ONLY DAUGHTER

IX. MRS. DODGE’S HUSBAND

X. LILY’S ALMOST FIRST ENGAGEMENT

XI. MRS. CROMWELL’S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER

XII. HER HAPPIEST HOUR

XIII. HEARTBREAK

XIV. MRS. DODGE’S NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOUR

XV. MRS. DODGE DECLINES TO TELL

XVI. MRS. LESLIE BRAITHWAITE’S HUSBAND

XVII “DOLLING”

XVIII. LILY’S FRIEND ADA

XIX. PARENTS IN DARKNESS

XX. DAMSEL DARK, DAMSEL FAIR

XXI. MRS. CROMWELL’S NIECE

XXII. WALLFLOWER

XXIII. THE STRANGE MIRROR

XXIV. TRANSFIGURATION

XXV. GLAMOUR CAN BE KEPT

XXVI. DESERT SAND

XXVII. MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT

XXVIII. A PUBLIC MOCKERY

XXIX. MRS. CROMWELL’S OLDEST DAUGHTER

XXX. MRS. CROMWELL’S SONS-IN-LAW

XXXI. THE ANNIVERSARY DINNER

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Booth Tarkington

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“My dear!” Mrs. Cromwell exclaimed. “Why, even Battle himself didn’t know that he was a great man until he married Amelia and she believed he was—and told him he was—and started her long career of going about making everybody else sort of believe it, too.”

“I think it’s simply her own form of egoism,” said the emphatic Mrs. Dodge. “She’d have done exactly the same whoever she married.”

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