Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 / 2008-06-04 00:00:00

EBOOK WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING ***


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WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING


BOOKS BY RUPERT HUGHES
We Can't Have Everything
In A Little Town
The Thirteenth Commandment
Clipped Wings
What Will People Say?
The Last Rose Of Summer
Empty Pockets


[Illustration: WAR, THE SUNDERER, HAD REACHED THEM WITH HIS GREAT DIVORCE]


WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING
A NOVEL BY RUPERT HUGHES
AUTHOR OF _What Will People Say?_
ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG


CONTENTS
THE FIRST BOOK
MISS KEDZIE THROPP COMES TO TOWN
THE SECOND BOOK
MRS. TOMMIE GILFOYLE HAS HER PICTURE TAKEN
THE THIRD BOOK
MRS. JIM DYCKMAN IS NOT SATISFIED
THE FOURTH BOOK
THE MARCHIONESS HAS QUALMS


THE FIRST BOOK
MISS KEDZIE THROPP COMES TO TOWN


CHAPTER I
Kedzie Thropp had never seen Fifth Avenue or a yacht or a butler
or a glass of champagne or an ocean or a person of social prominence.
She wanted to see them.
For each five minutes of the day and night, one girl comes to New
York to make her life; or so the compilers of statistics claim.
This was Kedzie Thropp's five minutes.
She did not know it, and the two highly important, because extremely
wealthy, beings in the same Pullman car never suspected her--never
imagined that the tangle they were already in would be further
knotted, then snipped, then snarled up again, by this little
mediocrity.
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