Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Dixon Thomas
Title : The one woman A story of modern Utopia
Year : 1903

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Chapter 1. THE MAN AND THE Woman. Quick a glass of water ! " A man sprang to his feet, beckoning to an usher. When he reached the seat the woman had recovered by a supreme effort of will and sat erect, her face flushed with anger at her own weakness. "Thank you, I am quite well now," she said with dignity. The man settled back and the usher returned to his place and stood watching her out of the comers of his eyes, fascinated by her beauty. The church was packed that night with more than two thousand people. The air was hot and foul. The old brick building, jammed in the middle of a block, faced the street with its big bare gable. The ushers were so used to people fainting that they kept water and smelling-salts handy in the anterooms. ...