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Title: V. V.'s Eyes

Author: Henry Sydnor Harrison

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V.V.'S EYES

by

HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON

Author of _Queed_

With Illustrations

1913

To my first, second, and third reader

NORVELL

Who raises books by hand

CONTENTS

I

Two Houses, with a great Gulf between; of V. Vivian, M.D., and
what he thought of John the Baptist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II

Two Persons of More Importance, and why they went to the Beach in
October; Miss Carlisle Heth, and how she met an Unwelcome
Swain at Sea; how this Swain could swim enough for one. . . . . . 12

III

How Carlisle screamed when the Boat upset, or else didn't, as the
Case might be; also of Mrs. Heth, who went down Six Floors to
nail Falsehoods, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

IV

Mr. Hugo Canning, of the well-known Pursuing-Sex; how the Great
Young Man pursued Miss Heth to a Summer-House, and what
stopped his Thundering Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

V

Dialogue between V. Vivian, of the Slums, and Mr. Heth's Daughter
(or his Niece); and what the lovely Hun saw in the Mr. Vivian's
eyes, just before he asked God to pity her. . . . . . . . . . . . 48

VI

Of Carlisle's Bewilderment over all the Horrid Talk; of how it wasn't
her Fault that Gossip was so Unreliable; of the Greatest Game in
the World; also, of Mr. Heth, who didn't look like a Shameless
Homicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .