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A BLACK ADONIS.
by
ALBERT ROSS.
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THE ALBATROSS NOVELS
By ALBERT ROSS
23 Volumes
May be had wherever books are sold at the price you paid for this volume
Black Adonis, A Garston Bigamy, The Her Husband's Friend His Foster Sister His Private Character In Stella's Shadow Love at Seventy Love Gone Astray Moulding a Maiden Naked Truth, The New Sensation, A Original Sinner, An Out of Wedlock Speaking of Ellen Stranger Than Fiction Sugar Princess, A That Gay Deceiver Their Marriage Bond Thou Shalt Not Thy Neighbor's Wife Why I'm Single Young Fawcett's Mabel Young Miss Giddy
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A BLACK ADONIS.
by
ALBERT ROSS.
Author of "Out of Wedlock," "Speaking of Ellen," "Thou Shalt Not," "Why I'm Single," "Love at Seventy," Etc., Etc.
"You see!" he answered, bitterly. "Because I am black I cannot touch the hand of a woman that is white. And yet you say the Almighty made of one blood all nations of the earth!"--Page 212.
New York: Copyright, 1896, by G. W. Dillingham. G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers. [All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS.
Chapter Page
I. A Rejected Manuscript 9
II. "Was my story too bold?" 23
III. "Her feet were pink" 35
IV. With Titian Tresses 49
V. Studying Miss Millicent 65
VI. "How the women stare!" 79
VII. A Dinner at Midlands 93
VIII. Holding Her Hand 99
IX. "Daisy, my darling!" 110
X. "Oh, so many, many maids!" 121
XI. Archie Pays Attention 136
XII. Dining at Isaac's 143
XIII. A Question of Color 155
XIV. "Let us have a betrayal" 166
XV. The Green-Eyed Monster 177
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter
- 2: Fantelli does not claim that Blanche is his property
- 3: Cutt Slashem stood at the top of their profession
- 4: He took his way with all speed to Cutt Slashem's office
- 5: I think we had better order five hundred reams
- 6: The members of the firm of Cutt Slashem
- 7: And that I have read it with the greatest interest
- 8: Gouger struck his hands together and clinched them
- 9: Roseleaf stared doubtfully at his companion
- 10: For the office of Cutt Slashem in the city
- 11: Gouger motioned Miss Fern rather stiffly to a seat
- 12: Weil you remember Lelia Dante
- 13: I want a few minutes' talk with Miss Fern
- 14: Gouger had accepted an invitation to take lunch with him
- 15: And her periods and commas are in a hopeless tangle
- 16: Weil inquired if his friend was certain of this
- 17: Gouger brightened at the change of subject
- 18: Gouger played with his watchchain
- 19: Roseleaf listened with rapt attention
- 20: Every woman cannot have Titian hair
- 21: Archie had read a great many books
- 22: I wonder what Gouger will say when I unfold my plan
- 23: Roseleaf colored more than ever
- 24: Roseleaf inquired for further particulars
- 25: Walker Boggs shrugged his shoulders
- 26: But Archie Weil could not be restrained
- 27: Gouger you know Gouger says he writes the purest English
- 28: Weil made his appearance at the residence of Mr
- 29: Gouger rejected I shall draw my hero after that model
- 30: Gouger scented the difficulty under which he labors
- 31: Think it had taken a bold girl to write it
- 32: Gouger put when he read it How could a young
- 33: She repeated the word Shirley
- 34: Gouger inquired what he was waiting for
- 35: Walker Boggs came into the room
- 36: Boggs responded that he would be delighted
- 37: Weil smiled significantly at Gouger
- 38: Weil shook his head in opposition to this rash statement
- 39: Inquired what they thought of Mrs
- 40: Roseleaf looked up inquiringly
- 41: Fern had his first conversation with Roseleaf
- 42: Roseleaf haltingly said he would do his best
- 43: Weil took some of the completed chapters to Lawrence Gouger
- 44: Roseleaf looked up inquiringly
- 45: Weil uttered a disheartened groan
- 46: Miss Fern rose to her feet with a fierce gesture
- 47: In his exuberance Roseleaf spoke at last with ardor
- 48: Roseleaf had developed a genuine liking for these rambles
- 49: That a grief like this appeals strongly to me
- 50: And Roseleaf thought how interesting this girl had become
- 51: She had hurt herself truly in her fall
- 52: Roseleaf did not mean to share in that deception
- 53: Roseleaf proceeded to give the outlines of what had occurred
- 54: Roseleaf doubted the full correctness of these conclusions
- 55: Weil rose and took a few paces up and down the room
- 56: If Roseleaf was lucky enough to claim Daisy as his wife
- 57: We talked like the commonest acquaintances
- 58: Has Hannibal some mysterious hold on his situation
- 59: Gouger warned his young friend not to write too fast
- 60: Weil would actually do these dreadful things
- 61: And Gouger read it and went into ecstacies
- 62: Weil did not seem to wholly relish the announcement
- 63: Roseleaf slowly sipped the sparkling beverage
- 64: Weil assented to this proposition
- 65: Leveson sometimes remarked with glee
- 66: Addressing himself particularly to Roseleaf
- 67: Weil grew vastly irritated by this statement
- 68: Delavan were sitting by his bed
- 69: Until he came within sight of the roofs of Midlands
- 70: Miss Daisy passed on toward the house
- 71: Weil arrived at about the same time as Roseleaf
- 72: Daisy threw herself in front of Roseleaf
- 73: Talking in whispers to Roseleaf
- 74: Hannibal sat as if lost in thought
- 75: Millicent in love with Roseleaf
- 76: Weil was silent for some moments
- 77: Roseleaf used to speak very violently of Hannibal
- 78: Roseleaf would furnish if needed
- 79: Weil would have proposed to you long ago
- 80: That this was the same way he had addressed Millicent
- 81: Weil pleaded his warm friendship
- 82: The next time that Weil saw Roseleaf
- 83: Weil was in no mood to talk about novels
- 84: The notes I owed Boggs were almost due
- 85: After dinner he talked with Daisy
- 86: Roseleaf was in love with Daisy
- 87: Millicent Fern lay wide awake a few nights later
- 88: Millicent could not dispute the insinuation
- 89: Daisy was dressed in much the same manner as Millicent
- 90: Entreat Millicent to seal her lips
- 91: Millicent did not appear at breakfast
- 92: Daisy mounted to the room designated
- 93: Hannibal shook his head with decision
- 94: She now felt for Hannibal a horrible detestation
- 95: Weil motioned the girl to follow him to a remote corner
- 96: Never fear you must do justice to Shirley Roseleaf
- 97: Archie Weil had a constant struggle
- 98: Gouger sprang up in astonishment at the sudden arrival
- 99: At which Gouger was the only spectator
- 100: Boggs name across the back of it
- 101: Weil could hardly control himself
- 102: Weil excused himself for a few moments
- 103: Boggs came at his appointed hour
- 104: When Roseleaf made his next appearance at dinner
- 105: There is much sadness in novels
- 106: Roseleaf wore a thoughtful expression
- 107: Shirley Roseleaf is honor personified
- 108: Gouger straightened himself up in his chair
- 109: He found him in the company of Lawrence Gouger
- 110: Roseleaf gave vent to an expression of nausea
- 111: I will go to Midlands and return with what news I can get
- 112: Gouger replied that they had done so
- 113: Gouger deliberated whether to say more
- 114: Weil confessed his inability to do so
- 115: Roseleaf seemed partially convinced by this outburst
- 116: All was over between her and Roseleaf
- 117: Roseleaf would be in his company
- 118: Gouger hesitated what card to play
- 119: And Roseleaf began making a more particular toilet
- 120: Roseleaf had the same expectation
- 121: Weil did not drive immediately to Oakhurst
- 122: And I can only throw myself on your mercy
- 123: Weil found Shirley Roseleaf there
- 124: A little further and Roseleaf stopped
- 125: Hannibal shrugged his shoulders
- 126: The negro evidently believed her
- 127: Weil crawled into a safer place and rose to his feet
- 128: Weil had not thought of the matter in this concrete form
- 129: Fern upbraided Weil for using so much ceremony
- 130: Weil gently let drop a hint of what he had to tell
- 131: And Daisy turned half away from the speaker
- 132: Roseleaf sat down as if to take his ease while breakfasting
- 133: Then Hannibal blurted out his story
- 134: In which were seated Archie Weil and Daisy Fern
- 135: Shortly after the wedding Gouger went to Roseleaf's rooms
- 136: Roseleaf did not answer for some seconds
- 137: I have said I had watched with patience
- 138: This note was found within TO LAWRENCE GOUGER
- 139: Page 278 typographical error corrected countenance