The crucible
Mark Lee Luther
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 19, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...as any of their rooms at the Lorna Doone, this enterprising firm had deployed a whole furnished flat. Furthermore, they had peopled it. In the parlor, which one saw first, a waxen lady in a yellow tea-gown sat embroidering by the gas-log, while over against her lounged a waxen gentleman in velvet smoking-jacket and slippers--a most inviting domestic picture, even though its atmosphere was somewhat cluttered with pricemarks. "That's you and me," said Paul, tenderly ungrammatical. Jean was less romantically preoccupied. "I'd quite forgotten curtains," she mused. "They'll take a pretty penny." Thereupon the dentist discovered things which he had overlooked. "We must have a bookcase," he said. "That combination case and desk certainly looks swell. What say to one like it?" "Have you any books F" "I should smile. I've got together the best little dental library you can buy." "Then you'll keep it at your office," decided Jean, promptly. "When we have a library about something besides teeth, we'll think about a case." The shopkeeper's imaginative realism extended also to the other rooms. Real fruit adorned the dining room buffet; the neat kitchen was tenanted by a maid in uniform, whom they dubbed "Marie" and agreed that they could do without; while in one of the bedrooms they came upon a crib whose occupant they studiously refrained to classify. "But for kitchenware," said Paul, abruptly, "the five-and-ten-cent stores have this place beaten to a With this, then, as a working model, to which Paul was ever returning for inspiration, they made their purchases. It was, of course, his money in the main which they expended, but Jean also drew generously on...