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Geoffrey Holland stood up and for the second time surveyed the restaurant in search of other members of his party, two fingers in the pocket of his waistcoat, as if they had just relinquished his watch. He was tall enough to be conspicuous and well bred enough to be indifferent to the fact, good looking, in a bronzed, blond clean-shaven way, and branded in the popular imagination as a young and active millionaire. At a neighbouring table a man lent forward and whispered to the other men and women with him: "Do you know who that is?-that is young Holland."

This book belongs to children's literature and is one of notable books of every child should know series. The stories or fairy tales belong to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic, the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible. Although the readers of this book are main children, many people also like this book.

This is a novel by american writer and poet Alice Duer Miller, who as a poet, became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published a brilliant series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune. This is probably her lightest novel, directed mostly to children. A Christmas story full of hope and good feelings, a light read with a cute love story-line.

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A young millionaire named Geoffrey Holland, concerned about a recent string of thefts in the locale, visits his country home in Hillsborough and surprises a burglar, in the form of his old schoolmate, Billy McVay. McVay convinces him to set out, in the midst of a blizzard, to rescue his sister, living nearby in a rundown shack, and wholly ignorant of his (McVay's) career as a thief. Against his better judgement, Holland agrees, and finds himself falling in love at first sight with the beautiful Cecelia McVay. How can Holland discharge his duty to see McVay punished for his crimes, whilst also winning the love of the criminal's sister...?A brief novella from Alice Duer Miller, an author previously known to me largely because of her collection, Are Women People? A Book Of Rhymes For Suffrage Times , which offers a poetic argument in favor of women's suffrage, The Burglar and the Blizzard was first published in 1914. Somehow, perhaps because of the author's support of a woman's right to vote, I expected something a little less conventional from this holiday romance. When Geoffrey Holland is intrigued, at the beginning of the story, by reports of a woman's possible involvement in the thefts, I wondered if we were in for a lady burglar. Alas, that was not to be, and the reader instead discovers a fairly traditional tale of a hapless (and very beautiful) young girl, and the wealthy, powerful man who falls (inexplicably) in love with her and decides to shield her from the unfortunate truth about her brother. I've nothing against traditional love stories, as it happens, but this one failed to entertain. I simply couldn't muster much sympathy for the characters, or interest in their eventual fate

Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses impacted on the suffrage issue, while her verse-play The White Cliffs encouraged US entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays. Alice Duer was born in New York City on July 28, 1874 into a wealthy family. She was the daughter of James Gore King Duer and Elizabeth Wilson Meads, the daughter of Orlando Meads of Albany, New York. Her great grandfather was William Alexander Duer, who was the president of Columbia College, 1829–1842. At the time of her entrance into society, her family lost most of its fortune. She entered Barnard College in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy. She helped to pay for her studies by selling novels and short essays. She and her sister, Caroline, jointly published a book of poems. Alice graduated in June 1899. On October 5, 1899, she married Henry Wise Miller at Grace Church Chapel in New York City.[5] He was born in 1877, the son of Lt. Commander Jacob Miller, in Nice, France, where his father had been serving with the U.S. Navy. He was an 1892 graduate of Harvard University.[citation needed] They left for Costa Rica, where he attempted to develop rubber cultivation. This venture eventually failed and, in 1903, she, Miller and their young son returned to New York. She became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published a brilliant series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune. These were published subsequently as Are Women People?. These words became a catchphrase of the suffrage movement. She followed this collection with Women Are People! (1917).

Geoffrey Holland stood up and for the second time surveyed the restaurant in search of other members of his party, two fingers in the pocket of his waistcoat, as if they had just relinquished his watch. He was tall enough to be conspicuous and well bred enough to be indifferent to the fact, good looking, in a bronzed, blond clean-shaven way, and branded in the popular imagination .........