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Title: Man and Maid

Author: Elinor Glyn

Release Date: February 3, 2007 [EBook #20512]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Suzette (Renee Adoree) makes the tedious hours of the
wounded Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) seem less monotonous. (A scene
from Elinor Glyn's production "Man and Maid" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)]

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MAN AND MAID

By ELINOR GLYN

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with J. B. Lippincott Company
Printed in U.S.A.

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COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ELINOR GLYN

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MAN AND MAID

I

February, 1918.

I am sick of my life--The war has robbed it of all that a young man can
find of joy.

I look at my mutilated face before I replace the black patch over the
left eye, and I realize that, with my crooked shoulder, and the leg gone
from the right knee downwards, that no woman can feel emotion for me
again in this world.

So be it--I must be a philosopher.

Mercifully I have no near relations--Mercifully I am still very rich,
mercifully I can buy love w