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THE BEAUTY
By MRS. WILSON WOODROW
Author of The Silver Butterfly, etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
WILL GREFÉ
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1910
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Perdita
CONTENTS
| I | A Bachelor's Bride | 1 |
| II | A Far World of Dreaming | 14 |
| III | Pink and White Existence | 35 |
| IV | Our Loving Friends | 55 |
| V | Perdita's Talisman | 64 |
| VI | Sirocco | 75 |
| VII | The Gift of Freedom | 84 |
| VIII | Fools' Laughter | 98 |
| IX | A Telephone Call | 114 |
| X | Out of the Gilded Cage | 125 |
| XI | A Doll or a Box of Candy | 137 |
| XII | Fuschia Fleming | 150 |
| XIII | Shocking the Hewstons | 165 |
| XIV | Publicity | 175 |
| XV | A Widow's Smile | 192 |
| XVI | Father and Daughter | 206 |
| XVII | Do You Love Me? | 219 |
| XVIII | Playing the Game | 231 |
| XIX | He Calls on His Wife | 243 |
| XX | The Magic Word | 256 |
| XXI | Two Announcements | 268 |
| XXII | Hepworth Misunderstands | 278 |
| XXIII | Its Ancient Charm | 289 |
| XXIV | Waiting for Perdita | 305 |
| XXV | With My Heart's Love | 316 |
THE BEAUTY
CHAPTER I
A BACHELOR'S BRIDE
If the proper statistics of bachelorhood were accurately tabulated they would show that at certain fixed and recurring periods, a confirmed old bachelor, say one in every ten, casts his dearly-bought experience, his hard-won knowledge of the world and women to the four winds of heaven, and chooses for himself a wife; and, as his friends and relatives invariably protest, a bungling job he