Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 / 2008-11-16 00:00:00

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[Illustration: "'I will teach you to love me,' he cried."]


THE GRAIN OF DUST

_A NOVEL_

BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS

ILLUSTRATED BY A.B. WENZELL
1911


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"'I will teach you to love he,' he cried"
"'You won't make an out-and-out idiot of yourself, will you Ursula?'"
"'Would you like to think I was marrying you for what you have?--or for
any other reason whatever but for what you are?'"
"'It has killed me,' he groaned."
"She glanced complacently down at her softly glistening shoulders."
"'Father . . . I have asked you not to interfere between Fred and me.'"
"Evidently she had been crying."
"At Josephine's right sat a handsome young foreigner."


THE GRAIN OF DUST


I

Into the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman,
corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in
search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the
most important and most famous--radical orators often said infamous--in
New York. The girl seemed, at a glance, about as unimportant and obscure
an atom as the city hid in its vast ferment. She was blonde--tawny hair,
fair skin, blue eyes.
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