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Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole By: Fannie Hurst (1889-1968) |
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JUST AROUND THE CORNER ROMANCE en casserole BY FANNIE HURST
ILLUSTRATED HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXIV
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HARPER & BROTHERS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1914
CONTENTS
PAGE POWER AND HORSE POWER 1 OTHER PEOPLE'S SHOES 31 THE OTHER CHEEK 72 MARKED DOWN 110 BREAKERS AHEAD 153 THE GOOD PROVIDER 199 SUPERMAN 247 THE PARADISE TRAIL 300 THE SQUALL 329
ILLUSTRATIONS
"IT'S ALL RIGHT, DEAREST; THIS IS YOUR SURPRISE" Frontispiece SHE HELD UP A HAND AS LIGHT AS A LEAF, AND HE TOOK
IT IN A WIDE, GENTLE CLASP THAT ENVELOPED IT Facing p. 290 "HELLO!" HE WHISPERED, EXTENDING BOTH HANDS AND
SMILING AT HER UNTIL ALL HIS TEETH SHOWED " 328 "I WENT OVER TO LOO'S, AND WE STAYED UP AND TALKED
SO LATE I DIDN'T KNOW " " 360
JUST AROUND THE CORNER
POWER AND HORSE POWER
In the Knockerbeck Hotel there are various parlors; Pompeian rooms lined
in marble and pillared in chaste fluted columns; Louis Quinze corners,
gold leafed and pink brocaded, principally furnished with a
spindly legged Vernis Martin cabinet and a large French clock in the
form of a celestial sphere surmounted by a gold cupid. There are high ceilinged rendezvous rooms, with six arm and two straight
chairs chased after the manner of Gouthière, and a series of small
inlaid writing desks, generously equipped for an avidious public to whom
the crest embossed stationery of a four dollar a day up hotel suggests
long forgotten friends back home. Just off the lobby is the Oriental room, thick with arabesque hangings
and incense and distinguished by the famous pair of Chinese famille rose
mandarin jars, fifty three inches high and enameled with Hoho birds and
flowers. In careful contrast the adjoining room, a Colonial parlor
paneled in black walnut and designed by a notorious architect, is ten
degrees lower in temperature and lighted by large rectangular windows,
through whose leaded panes a checkered patch of sunshine filters across
the floor for half an hour each forenoon. Then there is the manicure parlor, done in white tile, and stationary
wash stands by the Herman Casky Hygienic Company, Eighth Avenue. The oracle of this particular Delphi was Miss Gertrude Sprunt,
white shirtwaisted, smooth haired, and cool fingered. Miss Sprunt could
tell, almost as soon as you stepped out of the elevator opposite the
parlors, the shortest cut to your hand and heart; she could glance at a
pair of cuffs and give the finger nails a correspondingly high or
domestic finish, and could cater to the manicurial whims of Fifth Avenue
and Four Corners alike. After one digital treat at her clever hands you
enlisted as one of Miss Sprunt's regulars. This fact was not lost upon her sister worker, Miss Ethyl Mooney. "Say,
Gertie" Miss Mooney tied a perky little apron about her trim waist and
patted a bow into place "is there ever a mornin' that you ain't booked
clear through the day?" Miss Sprunt hung her flat sailor hat and blue jacket behind the door,
placed her hands on her hips, glanced down the length of her svelte
figure, yawned, and patted her mouth with her hand. "Not so you could notice it," she replied, in gapey tones. "I'm booked
from nine to quitting just six days of the week; and, believe me, it's
not like taking the rest cure." "I guess if I was a jollier like you, Gert, I'd have a waitin' list,
too, I wish I could get on to your system." "Maybe I give tradin' stamps," observed Miss Sprunt, flippantly. "You give 'em some sort of laughing gas; but me, I'm of a retiring
disposition, and I never could force myself on nobody." Miss Gertrude flecked at herself with a whisk broom... Continue reading book >>
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