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Title: The Immortal Moment
The Story of Kitty Tailleur

Author: May Sinclair

Illustrator: C. Coles Phillips

Release Date: February 27, 2010 [EBook #31416]

Language: English

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THE IMMORTAL MOMENT

Books by

MAY SINCLAIR

The Helpmate
The Divine Fire
Two Sides of a Question
Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson
Etc., etc.

[Illustration: "Kitty's face ... pleaded with the other face in the
glass."]

THE IMMORTAL MOMENT

The Story of Kitty Tailleur

_By_

MAY SINCLAIR

ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED BY

C. COLES PHILLIPS.

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO.
1908

COPYRIGHT, 1908 BY

MAY SINCLAIR

PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1908

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING
THE SCANDINAVIAN

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

THIS STORY APPEARS IN ENGLAND
UNDER THE TITLE "KITTY TAILLEUR"

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Kitty's face ... pleaded with the other face
in the glass" FRONTISPIECE

"She stood there, strangely still ... before the
pitiless stare that went up to her appealing face" 10

"'You won't be tied to me a minute longer than
you like'" 208

"'I want to make you loathe me ... never see me
again'" 268

[Illustration: THE IMMORTAL MOMENT]

THE IMMORTAL MOMENT

CHAPTER I

They came into the hotel dining-room like young persons making their
first entry into life. They carried themselves with an air of subdued
audacity, of innocent inquiry. When the great doors opened to them they
stood still on the threshold, charmed, expectant. There was the magic of
quest, of pure, unspoiled adventure in their very efforts to catch the
head-waiter's eye. It was as if they called from its fantastic
dwell