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Title: Making People Happy
Author: Thompson Buchanan
Illustrator: Harrison Fisher
Release Date: January 25, 2009 [EBook #27888]
Language: English
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MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY
[Illustration]
MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY
by
THOMPSON BUCHANAN
Author of A WOMAN'S WAY
Frontispiece by HARRISON FISHER
NEW YORK
W.J. WATT & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY W. J. WATT & COMPANY
_Published September_
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO.
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MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY
CHAPTER I
The bride hammered the table desperately with her gavel. In vain! The
room was in pandemonium.
The lithe and curving form of the girl--for she was only twenty,
although already a wife--was tense now as she stood there in her own
drawing-room, stoutly battling to bring order out of chaos. Usually the
creamy pallor of her cheeks was only most daintily touched with rose: at
this moment the crimson of excitement burned fiercely. Usually her eyes
of amber were soft and tender: now they were glowing with an indignation
that was half-wrath.
Still the bride beat a tattoo of outraged authority with the gavel,
wholly without avail. The confusion that reigned in the charming
drawing-room of Cicily Hamilton did but grow momently the more
confounded. The Civitas Club was in full operation, and would brook no
restraint. Each of the twelve women, who were ranged in chairs facing
the presiding officer, was talking loudly and swiftly and incessantly.
None paid the slightest heed to the frantic appeal of the gavel....
Then, at last, the harassed bride reached the limit of endurance. She
threw the gavel from her angrily, and cried out shrilly above the massed
clamor of the other voices:
"If you don't stop," she declared vehemently, "I'll never speak to
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