Excerpt from Perch of the Devil
He had seemed to the girls of the only class he knew in Butte an even more romantic figure than the heroes of their magazine fiction, particularly as he took no notice of them until he met Ida Hook at a picnic and surrendered his heart.
Ida, forced by her thrifty mother to accept employment with a fashionable dressmaker, and consumed with envy of the West Siders whose measurements she took, did not hesitate longer than feminine prudence dictated. Be fore she gave her hair its nightly brushing her bold un pedantic hand had covered several sheets of pink note-paper with the legend, Mrs. Gregory Compton, the while she assured herself there was no sweller name on West Broadway. To do her justice, she also thrilled with young passion, for more than her vanity had responded to the sombre determined attentions of the man who had been the indifferent hero of so many maiden dreams. Al though she longed to be a Copper Queen, she was too young to be altogether hard; and, now that her hour' was come, every soft enchantment of her sex awoke to bind and blind her mate.
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Genre: Literary Fiction
He had seemed to the girls of the only class he knew in Butte an even more romantic figure than the heroes of their magazine fiction, particularly as he took no notice of them until he met Ida Hook at a picnic and surrendered his heart.
Ida, forced by her thrifty mother to accept employment with a fashionable dressmaker, and consumed with envy of the West Siders whose measurements she took, did not hesitate longer than feminine prudence dictated. Be fore she gave her hair its nightly brushing her bold un pedantic hand had covered several sheets of pink note-paper with the legend, Mrs. Gregory Compton, the while she assured herself there was no sweller name on West Broadway. To do her justice, she also thrilled with young passion, for more than her vanity had responded to the sombre determined attentions of the man who had been the indifferent hero of so many maiden dreams. Al though she longed to be a Copper Queen, she was too young to be altogether hard; and, now that her hour' was come, every soft enchantment of her sex awoke to bind and blind her mate.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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