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Title: The Man and the Moment

Author: Elinor Glyn

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[Illustration: "It all looked very intimate and lover-like"
[Page 149]]

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

* * * * *

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.

It is really most irritating to be suddenly confronted with the
consequences of one's follies at any age, but at twenty-four, when
otherwise the whole life is smiling for one, it seems quite too hard.

The frightful language this well-endowed young gentleman now indulged
in, half aloud and half in thought,