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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow. One Man in His Time
One Man in His Time
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THE SHADOW
CHAPTER II
GIDEON VETCH
CHAPTER III
CORINNA OF THE OLD PRINT SHOP
CHAPTER IV
THE TRIBAL INSTINCT
CHAPTER V
MARGARET
CHAPTER VI
MAGIC
CHAPTER VII
CORINNA GOES TO WAR
CHAPTER VIII
THE WORLD AND PATTY
CHAPTER IX
SEPTEMBER ROSES
CHAPTER X
PATTY AND CORINNA
CHAPTER XI
THE OLD WALLS AND THE RISING TIDE
CHAPTER XII
A JOURNEY INTO MEAN STREETS
CHAPTER XIII
CORINNA WONDERS
CHAPTER XIV
A LITTLE LIGHT ON HUMAN NATURE
CHAPTER XV
CORINNA OBSERVES
CHAPTER XVI
THE FEAR OF LIFE
CHAPTER XVII
MRS. GREEN
CHAPTER XVIII
MYSTIFICATION
CHAPTER XIX
THE SIXTH SENSE
CHAPTER XX
CORINNA FACES LIFE
CHAPTER XXI
DANCE MUSIC
CHAPTER XXII
THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXIII
THE DAWN
CHAPTER XXIV
THE VICTORY OF GIDEON VETCH
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Published by Good Press, 2019
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For the first time a smile softened his face, and the roving blue gleam danced blithely in his eyes. A moment before the young man had thought the Governor's face harsh and ugly. Now he remembered that the Judge had said "the man was not half bad to look at if you caught him smiling." Yes, he had a charm of his own, and that charm had swept him forward over every obstacle to the place he had reached. A single gift, indefinable yet unerring—the ability to make men believe absurdities, as John Benham had once said—and the material disadvantages of poverty and ignorance were brushed aside like trivial impediments. A strange power, and a dangerous one in unscrupulous hands, the young man reflected.
"I remember your face," pursued the Governor, while his smile faded—was brevity, after all, the secret of its magic? "You were at one of my speeches last autumn, and you sat in the front row, I think. I recall you because you were the only person in the audience who looked bored."
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