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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE FLIGHT OF THE PRINCESS IT WAS hanging by the sheerest thread, as the taxi trundled down the boulevard, whether the Princess would not direct it to her hotel, only a few squares away, and thus truncate her adventure just when it had so miraculously well begun. Even an adverse gesture by a traffic policeman at any of the crossings would have had a determining influence. She was?it cannot be denied?frightened, as no one could help being when an incredible daydream took the guise, all at once, of literal fact. Ten minutes ago, rather tired of her pedestrian adventure among the common people in the downtown streets, the bloom of novelty already rubbed off it, she had been upon the point of beginning to smile at that dream as an infantile illusion, of heaving an adult world-weary sigh over her lost youth. The phrase Too late had hovered upon her lips. And here, beyond the wildest of her dreams, was the actuality. The most beautiful man she had ever seen, the most utterly different from all the rest of the species? the one with whom she had, she suspected, fallen in love at first sight?owed his life to her and was now eloping with her in a taxi. It was not likely that they were pursued, and yet she had distinctly the sensation of it. Exactly balancing her fright was a most delicious curiosity as to what he would do; or rather, as to how he would do the only possible thing. He had fallen in love with her, no doubt?that was unescap- able, wasn't it, in the circumstances? But would he attempt to hide the fact under a cloak of mere gratitude ? How would he be affected by the realization that the person he loved and owed his life to was as remotely unattainable to him as the stars? What could a man do or say whose life had just been saved by Leda Swan ? What c..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217540414 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217540414 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 142 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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