EBOOK, THE HAPPY END ***
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THE HAPPY END
BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER
BOOKS BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER
THE HAPPY END
JAVA HEAD
GOLD AND IRON
THE THREE BLACK PENNYS
MOUNTAIN BLOOD
THE LAY ANTHONY
THE HAPPY END
DEDICATION
These stories have but one purpose--to give pleasure; and they have
been made into a book at the requests of those I have fortunately
pleased. It is, therefore, to such friends of my writing that they are
addressed and dedicated. However, this is not an effort to avoid my
responsibility: but to whom? Not to critics, not middlemen, nor the
Academies of which I am so reprehensibly ignorant; not, certainly, to
my neighbor. They brought me, in times of varying difficulty, food; and
for that excellent reason I am forced to conclude that, then as now, I
am responsible to my grocer.
CONTENTS
Lonely Valleys
The Egyptian Chariot
The Flower of Spain
Tol'able David
Bread
Rosemary Roselle
The Thrush in the Hedge
LONELY VALLEYS
The maid, smartly capped in starched ruffled muslin and black, who
admitted them to the somber luxury of the rectory, hesitated in
unconcealed sulky disfavor.
"Doctor Goodlowe has hardly started dinner," she asserted.
"Just ask him to come out for a little," the man repeated.
He was past middle age, awkward in harsh ill-fitting and formal clothes
and with a gaunt high-boned countenance and clear blue eyes.
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