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[Illustration: "It all looked very intimate and lover-like"
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THE MAN AND THE MOMENT
BY
ELINOR GLYN
1914
AUTHOR OF "GUINEVERE'S LOVER," "HALCYONE,"
"THE REASON WHY," ETC.
[Illustration]
Illustrated by
R.F. James
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1914
Copyright, 1914, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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Copyright, 1914, by The Red Book Corporation
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
"It all looked very intimate and lover-like"
_Frontispiece_
"He bounded forward to meet her" 48
"His solitary table was near theirs in the restaurant" 64
"'He is often in some scrape--something must have
culminated to-night'" 224
THE MAN AND THE MOMENT
CHAPTER I
Michael Arranstoun folded a letter which he had been reading for the
seventh time, with a vicious intentness, and then jumping up from the
big leather chair in which he had been buried, he said aloud, "Damn!"
When a young, rich and good-looking man says that particular word aloud
with a fearful grind of the teeth, one may know that he is in the very
devil of a temper!
Michael Arranstoun was!
And, to be sure, he had ample reason, as you, my friend, who may happen
to have begun this tale, will presently see.
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