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Title: Bought and Paid For
From the Play of George Broadhurst
Author: Arthur Hornblow
Release Date: July 8, 2005 [EBook #16249]
Last updated: January 3, 2009
Language: English
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[Illustration: WITHOUT FURTHER ARGUMENT, HE SEIZED HOLD OF HER. PAGE
234.]
BOUGHT AND
PAID FOR
_A Story of To-day_
From the Play of
GEORGE BROADHURST
by
ARTHUR HORNBLOW
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
SCENES IN THE PLAY
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1912, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
_Bought and Paid For_
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. 7
II. 21
III. 39
IV. 52
V. 67
VI. 83
VII. 97
VIII. 115
IX. 131
X. 146
XI. 160
XII. 175
XIII. 191
XIV. 202
XV. 216
XVI. 236
XVII. 254
XVIII. 271
XIX. 280
XX. 292
XXI. 312
XXII. 325
CHAPTER I
"How is he now, doctor? Don't--don't tell me there is no hope!"
The wife, a tall, aristocratic looking woman who, despite her advanced
years, her snow-white hair, her eyes now red and swollen from weeping,
and pallid face seamed with careworn lines from constant vigils, still
showed traces of former beauty, scanned the physician fearfully,
trying to read in the expression of his countenance what the friend
and man of science, out of sheer compassion, was doing his utmost to
conceal. He had just emerged from the sick chamber; the trained nurse,
methodical and quick, and singularly attractive looking in her neat
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