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David Graham Phillips. White Magic
White Magic
Table of Contents
I. A TASTE FOR CANDY
II. THE PAINTER GETS A MODEL
III. A LESSON IN WOMAN
IV. AN UPSET CANOE
V. AN ATTEMPT TO DAZZLE
VI. THE GUILE OF INNOCENCE
VII. MR. RICHMOND CALLS
VIII. AN INFURIATE FATHER
IX. FAMILY BEHIND-THE-SCENES
X. BEATRICE IN CHAINS
XI. PETER VISITS THE PRISON
XII. UNDER COVER OF NIGHT
XIII. PETER’S BAD QUARTER HOUR
XIV. THE SECOND FLIGHT
XV. WADE’S LOST FORTUNE
XVI. PETER CALLS ON ROGER
XVII. RICHMOND TRIES TO MAKE PEACE
XVIII. MRS. RICHMOND REBELS
XIX. ROGER SORE BESET
XX. BEATRICE LOSES
XXI. ROGER WINS
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David Graham Phillips
A Novel
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Her eyes, her whole face lighted up. “The white magic,” she repeated softly. After a brief reverie she came back to the subject and went on, “I told you because I—I’m ashamed to be a fraud with you.... I wonder if you’re really as big and honest as you seem? Nobody is—out there. They’re mean and petty!—when you see through what they pretend to be—pretend even to themselves. I’m just as big a fraud as the rest. And I often convince myself I’m sweet and good and— If I could only—” There she stopped, leaving her wish unexpressed but easy to imagine.
“The way to keep the little things out is to fill one’s mind with the big things,” said he. “But you’re not to blame for being what your surroundings compel.”
