A Duet (with an occasional chorus)
A Duet (with an occasional chorus)
"Bright, brave, simple, natural, delicate. It is the most artistic and most original thing that its author has done.... We can heartily recommend 'A Duet' to all classes of readers. It is a good book to put into the hands of the young of either sex. It will interest the general reader, and it should delight the critic, for it is a work of art. This story taken with the best of his previous work gives Dr. Doyle a very high place in modern letters."--Chicago Times-Herald.
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down into the stress and worry of life, when I found you so high
above it? And what can I offer you in exchange?' These are the
thoughts which come back and back all day, and leave me in the
blackest fit of despondency. I confessed to you that I had dark
humours, but never one so hopeless as this. I do not wish my worst
enemy to be as unhappy as I have been to-day.
Write to me, my own darling Maude, and tell me all you think, your very inmost soul, in this matter. Am I right? Have I asked too much of you? Does the change frighten you? You will have this in the morning, and I should have my answer by the evening post. I shall meet the postman. How hard I shall try not to snatch the letter from him, or to give myself away. Wilson has been in worrying me with foolish talk, while my thoughts were all of our affairs. He worked me up into a perfectly homicidal frame of mind, but I hope that I kept on smiling and was not discourteous to him. I wonder which is right, to be polite but hypocritical, or
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This is not a mystery -- it's more like a romance novel. No mystery plot. Weird, but true. It should definitely be recategorized.
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