ISBN: 9781153587662

Excerpt: ... as a lover for two days over a fancy that came into my head. You''ll laugh when I tell you, but I''ve been half afraid somebody else would take her up and… More...

Excerpt: ... as a lover for two days over a fancy that came into my head. You''ll laugh when I tell you, but I''ve been half afraid somebody else would take her up and- well, treat her badly. There is something that tells me that she has been forced into some brutal situation by somebody, somewhere, within the past two or three days. I believe I''d want to kill a man who did that. I didn''t laugh at him. I was the man who was in a fair way to get killed for doing that, and I thought laughter would be a little bit misplaced; but I am not a coward, and I didn''t flinch. I confessed. I tried to ease his mind by telling him what I had attempted to do. It was a mistake, he said, shortly, when I had finished. And you must promise me one thing, he added, very seriously. I''ll promise anything, I said, meekly. Don''t ever try anything of the sort again, he went on, gravely. If you had succeeded in writing that story, and subjected her to all that horror, I should never have spoken to you again. As it is, I realize that what you did was out of the kindness of your heart, prompted by a desire to be of service to me, and I''m just as much obliged as I can be, only I don''t want any assistance. Until you ask me to, Stuart, I replied, I''ll never write another line about her; but you''d better keep very mum about her yourself, or get her copyrighted. The way she upset that horse on Osborne, completely obliterating him, and at the same time getting out of the way of that little simian Count, in spite of all I could do to place her under obligations to both of them, was what the ancients would have called a caution. She has made a slave of me forever, and I venture to predict that if you don''t hurry up and get her into a book, somebody else will; and whoever does will make a name for himself alongside of which that of Smith will sink into oblivion. Count on me for that, said he. ''Faint heart never won fair lady,'' and I don''t intend to stop climbing just because I... John Kendrick Bangs, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, A Rebellious Heroine Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9781153587662

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary. ORG Stuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw life as it was. "The mission of the novelist, my dear Professor," he had once been heard to say at his club, "is not to amuse merely; his work is that of an historian, and he should be quite as careful to write truthfully as is the historian. How is the future to know what manner of lives we nineteenth century people have lived unless our novelists tell the truth? Books Fiction~~General Rebellious-Heroine~~John-Kendrick-Bangs General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 1153587661