Le Briary-Bush: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Le Briary-Bush: A Novel

He was sitting at a desk in the office Of the Port Royal Daily Record, writing headings on sheaves of items sent in by country correspondents.

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Excerpt from Le Briary-Bush: A Novel

Chicago!

Felix Fay saw with his mind's eye the map on the wall of the railway station-the map with a picture of iron roads from all over the middle west centering in a dark blotch in the corner.

He was sitting at a desk in the office of the Port Royal Daily Record, writing headings on sheaves of items sent :n by country correspondents.

John Hoffman has finished his new barn.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Hayes last Wednesday a fine ten pound boy.

Miss Edythe Brush has returned to the State Normal for the fall term.

And so on.

Felix wrote at the top of the page, Wheaton Whittlings. A rotten heading-but it would have to do. He yawned, and then stared unseeingly at the next page.

He was not thinking about those news-itcms. He was thinking about Chicago. . . .

A year ago, he had determined to leave Port Royal forever -and go to Chicago.

But here he was, still!

He had hoped, a year ago, to find, in the excitement of a new life in Chicago, healing for the desperate hearts of love. If only he had gone then! . . .

But he hadn't had the money to buy a railway ticket.

He had taken this job on the Record, and settled down to life in Port Royal again as a reporter.

His twenty-first year had gone by.

The hurts of love, so intolerably hard to bear, had healed.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.